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Supreme Court Justice William Q. Douglas travels to Cambridge to read members of the Signet Society passages from his new book about a mild mannered Maine river that is forced to use guns to defend its constitutional rights. In a lively introduction, the Society's First Woman President Ernestina Rathborne reminds the Associate Justice that the Signet is "neither a male chauvinist organization not an exclusive final club, neither a ham sandwich nor a lampshade, but rather Harvard's literary eating society." After the dinner Douglas and Rathborne elope to help a lonely Alaskan mountain defend its freedom of speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year Ahead: Less of the Same | 1/4/1973 | See Source »

...feminist poet walked out of he Signet Society's annual Christmas dinner Saturday night to protest what she called the Society's male chauvinism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminist Poet Walks Out of Signet, Terms the Society 'Male Dominated' | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Adrienne Rich, a Boston poet who was scheduled to read some of her work into the 150 guests at the dinner, made a brief statement explaining that she though that the Signet Society was a male-dominated institution and then left the Society's Dunster St. clubhouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminist Poet Walks Out of Signet, Terms the Society 'Male Dominated' | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Rich was scheduled to read from her works at the conclusion of Mayer's speech, but instead announced that the Signet had shown itself still to be a male-dominated institution, and thus an inappropriate forum for her poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminist Poet Walks Out of Signet, Terms the Society 'Male Dominated' | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...GEORGE AND THE GODFATHER by NORMAN MAILER 229 pages. Signet. $1.50 (paperback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Einstein of the Mediocre | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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