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...academic seriousness. In any case, today 71 colleges-a record-now have women in the president's chair, including Hunter, Wellesley, Goucher and Wheaton. Last month Smith College, the nation's largest private women's college (2,600 students)-and the school that produced Feminists Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Sylvia Plath-installed its first woman president. She is Jill Ker Conway, 40, an Australian who grew up on a sheep ranch and obtained a Ph.D. in history from Harvard. A prime virtue of women's colleges, Conway is persuaded, is that they tend to take...
...whom disagree with each other." And the way she usually makes that point. In this collection of 25 deftly written little essays most of which originally appeared in Esquire or New York magazines, is to zero in on all sorts of different women, all of them indisputably individual--Gloria Steinem. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Linda Lovelace. But there is one highly individual woman who is present in all of them--sometimes lurking in the background, more often right up front--and that is Nora Ephron herself...
When Gloria Steinem turns to her at the Democratic Convention, tears of frustration rolling down her cheeks, all Ephron can think is, "I have never cried over anything remotely political in my life, and I honestly have no idea of what to say." Here Ephron is obviously trying to underline the difference between herself and Steinem, between two individual women who both consider them selves part of the movement. But her underlining is gratuitous; what we're interested in at the moment is what's going on in Steinem's mind, not in Ephron...
Small-Brained Beast. The predatory shark was easiest meat of all for editorial cartoonists. They soon drew great whites labeled inflation, Communism and energy crisis gobbling up wages, Portugal and motorcars. There was even a cartoon showing Gloria Steinem swimming down to bite a shark. Columnists too sought political parallels: the Washington Post's George F. Will expressed amazement that in Washington, "where the Congress is regularly on view, people pay to see this movie about a small-brained beast that is all muscle and appetite." Universal swiftly capitalized on all the attention, bringing out a full-page newspaper...
...complaints about the U.N. extravaganza. Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch) has denounced it as "an extension of Madison Avenue feminism" set up as if the objective were to have poor women farm workers "lay down their hoes and light up a Virginia Slim." Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem arrived in Mexico City with a similar complaint. The conference, she said, "could trivialize the women's movement. The very idea of the Year of the Woman becomes clear when we consider we don't have the Year...