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...task of creating a lasting vision for the new Women’s Center. Admittedly, I had (along with many others) touted the new Women’s Center as Harvard’s first. I’ve since become humbly, acutely aware of the implications of historical amnesia??and the fact that five previous women’s centers were opened, and then closed, in the last 35 years at Harvard College. The reasons varied, but each time the closure happened, a new and even more committed crop of students arose from the remains to begin...
...dead era. The bewilderingly-titled “Cosmopolitan Pap” is quaintly anachronistic enough, and Howe Gelb’s dexterous piano work gives it a foot-tapping honky-tonk vibe. Still, the antebellum imagery and feel of past albums like “End of Amnesia?? and “Transfiguration of Vincent” were lost in the LP’s titular war. As a result, the album’s third song, “Human Punching Bag,” sounds vacuous, like a half-hearted attempt to recall the quiet...
...Orson Welles’ “Mr. Arkadin” is another one of those “ask your blackmailer to do a biographical report on your past because you have amnesia?? thrillers. You know the type?...
...content of The Women’s Guide is convincingly adamant about the need to prevent collective “amnesia?? with regards to the rocky history of women at Harvard and to provide a forthright discussion of gender issues facing women (and men) today. But the back cover plea to find “female readers” begins on the defensive, replying to an invisible critic that “this book is in fact more than The Unofficial Guide without the restaurant listings.” With such unprovoked hostility, the female reader is left...
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