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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Stage Villain. Miss Worth starts with what Ibsen gave her. Eighty years ago, Hedda was a melodramatic innovation; upon her arrival, frigid woman replaced lecherous man as a favorite stage villain. The new fate-worse-than-death, as many playwrights soon realized, was man's castration by this New Woman. Hedda is the sort of female who pushes drinks on a reformed drunkard and burns the only copies of other people's manuscripts. She is, in short, a bitch. Miss Worth knows it, and she takes it from there...
...heavy-legged furniture. At one moment of electric outrage, she turns her back to the audience, raises clenched fists to heaven like Antigone, then slowly lowers them to her neck, like just another housewife with just another nagging backache. In this magnificent little cycle of rebellion and surrender, Miss Worth defines her theme: trapped impotence...
...read the frankly ridiculous letter of Miss Linda Eldredge [May 11]. What broken promises, which worthless agreements, and just which reforms is she referring to? And what does she know about world politics, strategy, history, social patterns? And just how are things "getting worse each day"? Did she ever take the time to find out just how much better a place the world is today for just how many more people than it was a mere 50 years ago? What progress there has been in countless fields from medicine to farming to justice? I doubt it. But she wants...
Disadvantaged Minority. Miss Cadwell had a research group choose 607 women at random and ask one question: "What TV advertisement can you recall that you find particularly demeaning or objectionable?" Most-resented ads were for Right Guard deodorant, Axion presoak and Ultra Brite toothpaste. Right Guard's commercials show two families sharing the same medicine cabinet, and that, as Miss Cadwell sees it, belittles family life and offends women in their roles as wives and mothers. Women resent Arthur Godfrey's pitch for Axion, she believes, because it talks down to them. As for Ultra Brite...
...concludes that the American intellectual yearns for power; but "all that is offered to him is influence; and that seems to him an offensive concession. Hence, he wages a self-destructive war. Hatred becomes his substitute for power." The Eastern European intellectual, on the other hand, "doesn't miss power. He knows too well what a leaden burden is perennially attached to it. All he dreams about is influence. He knows that in enlarging margins of freedom and human dignity, influence is more instrumental than power...