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...wasted: a good-if perhaps too pat-idea, and some fine supporting performances, especially by Martin Sheen as an unctuous Army surgeon, Barnard Hughes as a frightened public health official, and Robert Walden as a callous clinician out from Washington to observe. Scott's direction is precise and more than promising. What Rage lacks is real tough-mindedness and courage, qualities it perhaps once had but seems to have lost somewhere along the way to the Army base...
...Soloman, a white junior at Columbia, points out: "There's no tension if there's no contact." Other administrators minimize the existence of self-segregation by describing it in euphemisms. Thus John Bunzel, president of California State University at San Jose, calls it "self-development," while at Barnard, Housing Director Blanche Lawton justifies reserving two dormitory floors for minority students as upholding "the principle of selective living for all students...
Sullen Weeds. After transferring to Barnard and graduating, Mead entered into the first of her three marriages, to a ministerial student named Luther Cressman. She had chosen him partly because he possessed the sensitivity to people's feelings that she so missed in her father. They had been engaged for five years and had read manuals on sexual technique, but they found at first that there were "moments of strangeness and disappointment to overcome." Overcome them they did, but Mead soon realized that she was writing poems that were "curiously contrapuntal to my expressed contentment." One, for instance, began...
They begin giving each other resumes of their lives. He is Jewish, N.Y.U. She is Catholic, Barnard College. He is an ad copywriter who once wrote short stories. She is a devoted but mildly discontented mother of two tots. Since they both approach adultery with the subdued ardor of a visit to the dentist, an enormous burden is placed on the dialogue, which is not saucy enough as banter and not solid enough as humor. Anne and Paul finally do play connubial hooky, but the sheer logistics of an illicit affair soon drive them, with considerable relief, back home...
...roster of women on big corporate boards also includes Chicago Lawyer Jewel Stradford Lafontant, a director of TWA and the Jewel Cos. grocery chain; and Girl Scouts Executive Director Cecily Cannan Selby, who is on the Avon and RCA boards. Last week Metropolitan Life Insurance named Barnard College President Martha E. Peterson for a directorship. They and other women who join boards are acquiring power in two ways. Aside from gaining the prestige and authority that have always gone with the job, directors of all companies today are being forced to take more active roles in company decisions. In several...