02-10 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Do men and women speak the same language?
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE from
History of Woman Suffrage.
Do men and women speak the same language?
The following is a simply psychological test that may answer the question.
Answer True or False. Answers at the end of this column.
1. Men talk more than women do.
2. Women interrupt men more frequently than men interrupt women.
3. Men look at women more often when conversing with them than women
look at men.
4. Women learn languages more quickly than men.
5. In discussions involving both men and women, women tend to set the
agenda and determine the topics that will be discussed.
6. In a mixed discussion, women talk about a wider range of subjects
than men do.
7. In a conversation with another person, a woman generally nods to
show that she agree with the speaker.
8. Women speak far more politely than men.
9. Men and women use the same set of words.
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02-10 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 02-10-1693, Marquise de la Mizanger, considered the earliest woman
in France to compose piano music. She toured extensively giving harpsichord
recitals.
Event: 02-10-1855: Women's Hospital in New York City, the first
woman's hospital in the world, founded by women for the exclusive use of
women where women were normal and not "other."
B. 02-10-1883, Edith Clarke, first women to receive a M.S. from MIT,
first woman elected as a fellow of AIEE (1948). Patented a calculating
device to predict behavior of electrical systems. Her main career was with
General Electric although she taught at various times during her life.
Her Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems (1943, 1950) was the authoritative
text in the field. Her mother who had nine children, six living, ran the
family farm after her father's death but died five years later.
B. 02-10-1898, Dame Judith Anderson, Australian-born American stage
and film actor. In 1918 her mother sought escape from grinding poverty
in Australia by taking JA - a budding amateur actor - to Hollywood. Unable
to find work, she took JA to New York where she sewed to keep them alive
while JA made the rounds of casting studios.
Finally in 1924 JA got a good role and was an immediate
star.
She premiered many of Eugene O'Neill's plays and is recognized as one of
the pre-eminent actors of the era. Did a number of Hollywood films including
the immortal rendition of Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca (1940). And her
Medea is one of the famous moments of theatre. Received her insignia of
a Dame Commander of the British Empire 07-12-1960.
B. 02-10-1902, Stella Adler, actor, director, and considered
by many as the finest teacher of acting of her generation.
B. 02-10-1927, Leontyne Price, superb lyric soprano. One of the
first black women to sing traditional "white" roles in opera.
Sang in all of the leading opera houses of the world. She received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964).
B. 02-10-1939, Roberta Flack, Grammy award singer and composer.
"First Time Ever I saw Your Face," and "Killing Me Softly"
(1973) electrified an entire generation.
B. 02-10-1939, Barbara Kolb, American composer, winner of the
Grand Prix de Rome (1969), professor at Wellesley College
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QUOTES DU JOUR
STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY:
"While the general
principles of the Bible are in favor of the most enlarged freedom and equality
of the race, isolated texts have been used to block the wheels of progress
in all periods; thus bigots have defended capital punishment, intemperance,
slavery, polygamy, and the subjection of women. The creeds of all nations
make obedience to man the cornerstone of (women's) religious character.
Fortunately, however, more liberal minds are now giving us higher and purer
expositions of the scriptures."
--
Volume 1, History of Woman Suffrage, edited and written by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Josyln Gage. 1881.
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