"The Vassar Girl" 1933-1974
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Mary McCarthy '33 describes the college as it was when she was a student in contrast to Vassar in 1974. Produced in 1974 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., the 26-minute program includes a discussion with a group of students about the political climate of the early '70s as well as McCarthy's analysis of Watergate.
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Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I have reshared it. I can really relate to all this, of course, as I was there. She does hold back. I must try to read that book.
Don't waste your time.
Mary McCarthy is seen here 41 years after she graduated from Vassar - and now it's probably been 41 or more years since the students seen here graduated. Where are they now? How did life turn out for them?
0:53 - 1:29 This summarizes what a Vassar girl is...Hey, that's me! :) VC '93. Like what Mary says about 3/4 of the way through, we are dealing with government issues today. Perhaps we are not as "active" as in the 60s, but we are--in small steps--doing what we can.
This was really quite fascinating in my estimation. Perhaps she did not want to come off as too heavy-handed in her assessments, or it could be convoluted academic language. I just read her book GROVES OF THE ACADEME and it is quite dark and yet funny. It would probably make this clip more clear. -'tarotworldtour'
Does Mary McCarthy ever finish asking a question? Was she drunk?
LOL
I've noticed that a lot of Women who Graduate from Women's Colleges become very successful Novelists of Chick-Lit. Besides Mary McCarthy there was Rona Jaffe (Class Reunion, After The Reunion) not to mention Patricia Highsmith Barnard who as Claire Morgan wrote The Price Of Salt which was one of the First Lesbian Romance Novels.
Patricia Highsmith wrote "chick-lit"?!?! She wrote psychological thrillers that hold greater similarities to Dostoyevsky than anything else. This made her very popular in Europe and less so with Americans who diminish anything written by women as "chick-lit." Even The Price of Salt is a thriller, despite it being her ONLY romance book, and thus less of an accurate example of her body of work. Furthermore, since when is lesbian fiction considered "chick-lit"??
ALSO, The Price of Salt wasn't one of the first lesbian romance novels. Hundreds came before it. It was simply the first to have a happy ending.
These students don't sound all that bright to me.