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...past allegations that remain unpublicized)? Then there were these loopholes: the abuse also had to be "serial" and "predatory." Occasional or one-off child-abuse violations could perhaps be forgiven. And even serial abuse might be overlooked if it had not been "predatory." A simple question: How is an adult's exploitation of a minor ever anything but predatory...
...around kids a lot, and I get to watch them in their various struggles to grow up. The worst mistakes kids make seem to happen when there’s an absence of adult guidance. I asked myself, what would you do if you were 13 and had a lot of free time? Then it started to write itself...
...around kids a lot, and I get to watch them in their various struggles to grow up. The worst mistakes kids make seem to happen when there's an absence of adult guidance. So I tried to put myself in the shoes of a thirteen-year old boy. I asked myself, what would you do if you were thirteen and had a lot of free time? Then it started to write itself. There were issues I felt strongly about dealing with. The whole issue of tolerance in this country is such a fundamentally difficult one...I wanted to make sure...
...assistant professor at Swarthmore, so this is my last Harvard spring as well. While I like to complain as much as anyone, learning and teaching at Harvard—as a graduate student and then a lecturer—have been the most rewarding engagements of my adult life, ranking just behind my adolescent summer job hawking peanuts at Wrigley Field (in part because the earlier position paid slightly better...
...specialist Bernard B. Ray, Muse is a violin virtuoso who turns bitter when he loses use of his left hand and is reduced to teaching the instrument he can no longer play. Muse's Arthur Williams is part Svengali, part Phantom of the Opera, and a big part any adult frustrated by the seeming lack of dedication the young bring to their studies. It's the rare film, for black or white audiences, in which good people can seem heartless or insubordinate for the best reasons, and where classical music gets the upper hand over le jazz...