Word: woman
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Although much of the rhetoric in the controversy over Af-Am has been political, the basic issue in the debate is an educational one. Critics of the department say the Afro-American perspective does not constitute a separate discipline any more than, for example, the Jewish or woman's perspective. The study of a particular culture is interdisciplinary, they add, and ought to draw on a number of departments and scholars. Moreover, they say scholars in Afro-American Studies do not employ a single methodology but instead approach their research using the tools of history, anthropology, or economics...
Busy availing herself of these Harvard facilities, the undergraduate woman rarely, if ever, encounters the institution that theoretically exists mainly for her sake: Radcliffe. Harvard and the daily life it offers are reality; Radcliffe is simply a symbol with a venerable name, a decrepit vessel steadily slipping into the sea of Harvard bureaucracy. In some ways, the Centennial celebrations this year have only reinforced this notion; Radcliffe for many has come to mean a group of old ladies who drink tea and reminisce about the good old days at the Quad...
...first woman elected to city-wide office in New York, Bellamy became president of the City Council Jan. 1, 1978. She won by the largest margin of any city-wide candidate in 1977. She was recently appointed to the Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
...when Nanette finally reached Broadway, it ran for 861 performances, and then toured the country. Funny Girl (1964) postponed its opening five times and went through 40 rewrites of the last scene. Finally, Jerome Robbins was brought in as production supervisor and added several songs, including You Are Woman...
Stoller is the author of four other scholarly books on sex, including the highly praised study Perversion (1975). He has become convinced by his researches -including a detailed case history of a woman drawn from his analytic practice -that conventional sexual behavior is based on the same drives found in extreme form in sexual perverts. In fact, Stoller says, "we try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-not just analysts-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal... are also rilled with hatred and wishes...