Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City's ateliers, for example. But--saints be praised!--New York's police commissioner had closed Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession after one performance because it was "revolting, indecent and nauseating when it was not boring." As late as 1912, a magazine editor (quoted in Ann Douglas' Terrible Honesty) could write that "no-one paints life as it is--thank Heaven--for we could not bear it," and receive few arguments from his readers. It was an era in which the word irony described a passing attitude, not a cultural imperative, and celebrity was something pleasant that happened...
...level of participation and the muted visibility of this feminist activism continue to plague Harvard. Oppenheim, perceiving women's groups merely to be a place for fuzzy self-esteem games, questions the existence of the Ann Radcliffe Trust at a time when advocates for women's issues should no longer remain silent. Oppenheim shows his lack of understanding when he asks, "As for the existence of 'emotional support,' don't we all need a bit of that?" Perhaps what's really needed at Harvard is not a women's center to address intricate issues of gender politics, but a center...
...Reported by Ann Blackman/Washington, Cathy Booth/Los Angeles, Elaine Rivera/New York and James Willwerth/San Francisco
...seems that they are all miffed about the process used to select students to the advisory committee of the new Ann Radcliffe Trust. The Trust is intended to distribute funds to student groups and generally promote attention to women's issues on campus. It assumes its official responsibilities on July 1, 2000. The advisory committee is a small group, picked by Assistant Dean of the College Karen G. Avery '87, that, in the coming months, will help determine how the Trust will operate. Whether they are formal members or not, all interested students have been encouraged to provide the committee...
However, now that the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has replaced Radcliffe College, the administration has said that it will no longer support programs that, like the Science Alliance, are exclusive to women. Even with the potential aid of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, set up to provide continued financial backing to programs for women after Radcliffe College's closing, few administrators have rallied to the defense of the Science Alliance...