Word: sexism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good part of the action unfolds in their fashionable Rome apartment on a very long, very rainy night during their marriage's tenth year. The couple are feuding, of course: about the fate of the revolution and their relationship, about her desire for independence and his ideologically hypocritical sexism. Since Wertmuller's ability to equivocate on the big themes matches Eric Sevareid's, there is no resolution to the story's many conflicts. All we ever learn is that the hero and heroine cannot live with each other and cannot live apart. We can easily...
...arcane and trendy. In Parlor B of Palmer House, for instance, an attentive, largely gray-haired, gray-suited audience listens to William Youngren of Boston College expound on "Dr. Johnson, Joseph Wharton and a 'Theory of Particularity.' " In another, a panel of women professors bears down on "Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare" to an overwhelmingly female audience. But concern for the tremendous Ph.D. glut has invaded even these rarefied environs. At least a dozen sessions are devoted to the problem. At one, an angry panelist accuses senior faculty of callously taking on more and more graduate students...
...requirements have gone down, grades have gone up. Watered-down curriculums fail to challenge. "The only places in schools today where people are really encouraged to perform up to capacity are in sports and the band," says Riesman, adding that elitism is almost as dirty a word as sexism or racism " Back-to-basics proponents advocate tightening up the curriculum with more requirements and forcing all students to show minimal competency" in essential skills before graduating. So far, 26 states have passed laws requiring competency exams. Congress has also begun hearings on whether there should be a nationwide competency exam...
...sympathetic theme for a musical, right? Not exactly. For Newley and Bricusse imposed an incredibly cynical view of human nature upon this cycle. They managed to write so much bigotry, sexism, coarseness and ruthlessness into the Littlechap character that many of their '60s' audiences walked away disgusted...
...lechers in the audience, Channel 5 presents Playboy's Playmate Party at 1:10 a.m. tonight. The 1977 Playmate of the Year will be crowned. Despite the appalling, bourgeois sexism of Hugh Hefner et al., the show must be better than its competition, the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. Nevertheless, if you watch the Playboy fete, remember one thing: you can't claim you're only watching because of the well-written articles...