Word: theda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That profile is familiar too. For Alex is the latest in a long Hollywood line of women whose sexuality makes them both super- and subhuman. Vampires. Or, in Hollywood's word, vamps. Since 1915, when Theda Bara starred in A Fool There Was (based on Rudyard Kipling's poem The Vampire), the American movie screen has been pocked with predatory femmes fatales. What made them evil? Usually, that they liked sex as much as men did, if they were decadent Europeans played by the likes of Garbo and Dietrich. Or, if they were homegrown, that sexual frustration twisted them into...
...while the department was making an effort to shore up its coverage of the field, Professor of Sociology Theda R. Skocpol was making public her increasing animosity towards her Harvard colleagues...
Princeton's department of politics last Thursday voted to offer Professor of Sociology Theda R. Skocpol a permanent post, but the offer still awaits final approval from the university, said Harvard sociology department Chairman Aage B. Sorensen...
...return to Harvard this fall of Theda R. Skocpol, the sociologist who fought a four-year tenure battle and won a sex discrimination grievance against the University, has precipitated new conflict within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, professors said...
...Theda Skocpol, who had been living in exile in California, has returned this year. But the sociologist might as well be in Siberia as far as undergrads are concerned. She is keeping a wary distance from the College, as she is offering only graduate level courses...