It's a "chick flick" - though we chicks who went to college back in the 1950s are having spirited debates about it. The movie, "Mona Lisa Smile," now playing at local theaters, portrays the social conformity of the 1950s at New England's elitist Wellesley College. Wellesley was (and is) a "girls school," as we quaintly called them before politically correctness taught us to say "women's college." I didn't attend Wellesley, though I tried. I got a rejection letter mentioning my lousy SAT scores in math. Instead, I attended another "girls school" for two years elsewhere in the nation before t...
