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Podcast: A Literary Cornucopia
Episode: Episode 131: Mona Gardner: "The Dinner Party"
Description: A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a colonel who says that they haven’t.“A woman’s unfailing reaction in any crisis,” the colonel says, “is to scream. And while a man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of nerve control than a woman has. And that last ounce is what counts.”There has always been a debate on man versus woman under a crisis. In "The Dinner Party" we can draw our own conclusions as to who shows greater cont...