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Meyer is more explicit about the controversial aspects of Lord’s work. “Even today,” he says, “most American art museums would shy away from a show focused on queer culture. Museum trustees and directors, especially behind closed doors, remain fairly conservative and risk-averse...
That passion allowed Jeff to make his own mark on the field. He made his high school’s varsity team as a freshman and would go on to earn all-county honors his junior and senior year. He also was a two-time All-American finalist and won the state championship in his senior year. Off the high school pitch, he played as a member of the competitive Empire State Games lacrosse team...
...education. They call the creative interpretation of literature “intervention,” and teachers “facilitators.” “If this is a revolution,” says Doris Sommer, a Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and African and African American Studies, “it’s in the spirit of [Marxist thinker Antonio] Gramsci—of reformism through cultural practices, because it gets people to read and write at a high level, in which creativity and critical thinking are recognized...
...culture of school,” Sommer says. “When you develop critical thinking and understand it through the arts, you’re in fact changing the world simply by trying to understand it.” True to the project’s Latin American roots, the students write “literature de cordel,” understanding an existing work by writing their own version of it, and hanging it on a clothesline...
...think people are more willing to take risks here. So whereas at other schools, seasons will consist of a big musical and a Shakespeare [play], we got to do ‘Blasted’ by Sarah Kane, which the American Repertory Theater has been wanting to produce for years, but hasn’t been able to because financially it doesn’t seem feasible. People are willing to do that here and get on board for that production. If there are 20 people in the house that night, that’s still 20 people...