Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...those of us who passed through high school in the firm belief of the future: we could have the best of our own "liberation," Radcliffe offered a particularly reassuring image of the man's and the woman's world. Mary Bunting continually stressed her image of the ideal Radcliffe girl: wife, mother, career...
...Radcliffe the situation is more complicated, because women do have the desire to succeed academically-but it must be remember that academic success per?se is a significantly inferior quality in a community where creativity and brilliance at the ideal, where men pride themselves on their capacity to spend a semester directing plays, then walk ? to an exam and do as well as a woman who has spent the semester gri?fing...
...RADCLIFFE the exploitation of women is less obvious but just as deep as in other areas of American Society. At the outset, the "ideal" of Harvard elitism, borrowed heavily from the English universities, is basically one of male intellectual clubbiness-thus some common rooms are still closed...
...Graham's unabashed earnestness. Similarly Meyer's new film reveals his obstinate faith in an ethic no more applicable today than tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. If all along the fire-breathing amazons of his earlier films have wanted the kind of suburban respectability Meyer poses as an ideal, then we have been badly mislead. Good pornography, and there is such a thing as good pornography, will feel the loss...
...book moves out of the valley to the ideal backdrop for modern despair: the movie colony in Los Angeles. The heroine is Maria Wyeth. an occasional actress married to a young director. The story of Maria's decline from depression to breakdown is told in 84 brief, cinematic takes-84 direct hits on a fragile psyche...