Nora Ephron wrote: >Hillary Clinton went to Wellesley College a few
years after I did, and I've always thought that the key to Hillary lay
in understanding what Wellesley wanted in those days from its alumnae:
you were meant to graduate, marry a powerful man, and preside over
dinner parties in the following manner -- when the two men on either
side of you disagreed violently, you were to step in and point out the
remarkable similarities between their diametrically-opposed positions.
You were meant to make nice. You were meant to find the middle. (If
you actually went into politics, you were meant to work for the League
of Women Voters, an organization that had no actual politics but was
simply in favor of getting everyone to vote.)<

As much as I hate to drop names, my sister was in the same class at WC
as Hillary (and knew her there). She was a leftist activist for a time
and then became a hippie (among other things). I don't think Wellesley
fit Ephron's sketch that well in 1969, when she graduated. After all,
1969 was a high-point in the 1960s college turmoil in the US.

My sister is mentioned on the first page of (and later in) the book
_Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley
'69__ by Miriam Horn. (It's not totally accurate, reporting that our
father was a Catholic; this isn't strictly speaking true, since he
dropped out of the RCC in the 1930s.)

--
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

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