Word: womens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know John and that he has a strong interest in women's issues," said Kathryn B. Clancy '00, co-president of RUS. "We're very progressive, so Driskell and Burton were the natural choice...
...Uncommon Women and Others
...first glance, Uncommon Children could well be the title of a play depicting the journey of a few extraordinary young men and women through adolescence to their admission at Harvard College. But you won't find the Crimson Key society performing variations at information sessions. In fact, Uncommon Children comes from a combination of the titles of two plays --Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein and Moonchildren by Michael Weller--produced together in the Leverett Old Library though December...
...Uncommon Women and Others revolves around the lives of seven seniors and one freshman at Mt. Holyoke College in 1972, examining their experiences both in college and at a reunion six years later. While only a few of these women consider themselves "uncommon" in reference to societal expectations, they all have conflicting ideas about the changing times in which they live and about the adults that they are becoming. Their afternoons are full of tea and brandy, while their evenings are full of more risqu behavior: applying to law school or sneaking out to have sex. The play...
...that by the time all of her friends are thirty, each of them will be "incredible" and "pretty fucking amazing." By the end of the play that prediction has not come to fruition, and it is implied that their situation is not going to be much better when the women are forty. The travails of these young women trying to carve a place in society for all future women are difficult, and sometimes a bit depressing, but they are still a pleasure to watch...