"Something Better than This": <i>Sweet Charity </i>and the Feminist Utopia of Broadway Musicals
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
From the bitter, painful, almost parodic strip of Ethel Merman's spectacular star turn in Gypsy in 1959 to the onstage nudity and frank sexuality of Hair in 1969, the American Broadway musical in the 1960s experienced a seismic transformation of style, content, and form. As the United States became an increasingly wealthy global power; as it expanded its involvement in the Vietnam War; as it witnessed the rise and then the fall of its hopes for the future in the figures of John F, Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; as it struggled to provide African-Americans and women with an equal place in society, the most American of cultural forms was radically altered, too. According to Gerald Mast, "The American musical, a more conservative and retrospective cultural medium than rock music or cult movies, was also on the move — away . from stories and toward self-consciousness, away from variants within a stable form and toward an exploration of its forms and its past"
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it