Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even those who basically accept the ideal of equality in education protest that Harvard can literally not afford to accept more women: women do not donate huge sums to alumni funds. This argument can be discredited on at least two counts. In the first place, the situation will change as women assume their rightful earning power in our country; women will give more once giving is no longer considered the rightful province of men. Secondly-and much more important-Harvard has a responsibility to initiate the change. If Harvard is going to continue to maintain its own image...
...case with so many presidential appointments, Bok's selection became the focus for two different questions-what is an ideal president? and who is an ideal president? By speaking publicly to the first, the Corporation members remained free to discuss the second amongst themselves...
...month lag between the decision and the announcement had a curious effect on the eventual reception Bok received. After such a long, complicated, and often boring search procedure (The Atlantic Magazine appropriately called it "a model" for presidential searches on other campuses) oriented publicly toward finding the ideal man, people did indeed begin to believe that whoever was chosen must necessarily be ideal. The final list of 23 was greeted with a sigh of relief for the number of names which had been dropped from the previous larger list, and the impression of conciliation lingered for a month as people...
...Soul, Love and Hate -and a totally inadequate coda: Revolution. Body ("Gender," "Bones," "Curves," "Hair," "Sex," "The Wicked Womb")-is the best section of the four. In it Greer levels some good criticism at those propounding the myth of the vaginal orgasm. "The implication that there is a statistically ideal fuck which will always result in satisfaction if the right procedures are followed is depressing and misleading.... Real satisfaction is not enshrined in a tiny cluster of nerves but in the sexual involvement of the whole person." Recent emotionless emphasis on the clitoral orgasm is, she says, "the index...
...Times almost perfectly crystallizes Pinter's dramaturgy, is it therefore his best play? That probably depends on how one feels about the direction of his career. Pinter's growth has been a spiral turning inward rather than outward. The question is how far he can pursue his ideal at the center before he meets himself coming back. It has always been part of his artistic courage to pitch his plays at the limits of the minimal and rarefied, and part of his importance is that he can make them work. For all its brilliance, Old Times does seem...