Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Signing in and out was one of several restrictions on the Radcliffe woman in the last decade; the College expected her to observe ladylike decorum in her urban environs: wearing dresses and using escorts in Cambridge Common, returning home at a reasonable hour and formally notifying--with evidence of parental knowledge or consent--the dean if she got engaged...
...activities allowing men and women to interact, Nancy L. Rosenblum '69 says. Men asked women out on dates, and it was a stigma not to go out on a Saturday night. Radcliffe dorms served milk and cookies on Saturdays for the unlucky--thus advertising the shame, Rosenblum notes. A woman's social life was a matter of public record in the dorms, since all calls went through the bell's desk and interested residents constantly leafed through the sign-out ledger...
Jerome Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, was visiting friends on Kirkland St. where his hosts warily eyed the Crimson reporters who came to call. "Well, I guess we're all little kids at heart," the woman who answered the door said, doling out gumdrops and describing the neighborhood's costumes...
...barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable, if wimpy, when he sits in the shadows of his bachelor pad and listens to "The Way We Were." At his brother's urging, he joins a divorced-men's therapy group where one ex-husband plans to marry the same woman for the fourth time and another dreams, at 71, about liver-spotted female hands reaching out to squeeze the last drops from his body. His brother also sets him up with Marilyn, (Clayburgh) a nursery schoolteacher, who cold-shoulders...
Pakula and Brooks hide one serious--and disturbing--social comment in the giggles of Potter's second-engagement bliss. In An Unmarried Woman, the heroine proudly disdained the need for a male companion. It seems, however, that Potter cannot go more than a month without a mate. Are we to infer that men who can't live without women are "lovable" and "sensitive?" Brooks, whose Mary Richards pioneered as television's securely single woman, sells single men short...