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...Every man--your father, your lover, your brother--is capable of rape. Rapes, they say, are any acts of sexual intercourse forced on one person by another. And rapes, they say, are not committed only by deviants but are a natural outgrowth of the sexual patterns we are all thrust into...
...second attitude makes rape possible. The first makes it impossible, almost literally, to be prosecuted. Both reinforce each other. By unconsciously defining the sacrosanct woman, belonging to her husband or father and chaste, men have thrust the majority of modern women into the other mold. A woman in control of her own life cannot be cast readily into the virgin/saint role. So she is cast into the role of whore. And in the mind of the rapist and in the courtroom she is no longer the victim, but the perpetrator: "She was asking for it," comes the matter-of-fact...
However, relying on his players' conditioning, enthusiasm and competitiveness, Ford succeeded in defusing most of the Quaker threats. Penn coach Bob Seddon said after the game that his players were inexperienced and thus lacked the final thrust in their combinations...
...good theater: the characters are merely pasteboard stand-ins for the absent playwright. And while it may be less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth, the play helps us keep it at arm's length. The thrust it makes into our lives is precisely that which we are most adept at parrying: the verbal scrutiny of motive and effect...
...clear what the details of the recommendations will be, but by all indications their main thrust is clear--Radcliffe people have convinced Harvard people that full merger, while probably a good idea in the long run, is not the immediate answer. Harvard and Radcliffe seem likely to remain nominally seperate for the next few years...