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...Affirmative Action Plan, the University pledged to remain "firmly committed to attain[ing] racial and gender diversity, believing that a diverse faculty is essential to excellent scholarship and teaching." In a letter dated Feb. 11, 1997, Rudenstine wrote to Schmertzler: "There is nothing I regard as more important to Harvard's future excellence than sustaining and enhancing the quality of appointments to the tenured faculty, and achieving that objective will depend in considerable degree on our success in appointing greater numbers of outstanding women scholars and teachers to tenured positions across the university...
...answer to the question is the life in accordance with reason, how does one attain such a life? Well it can be certain that one doesn't just wake up one day and decide to live according to reason. No, in order to live this life, one must, as Plato's sharpest student Aristotle said (more or less), practice, practice, practice. But as Bennett so wryly notes, this "is the medicine so many people find hard to swallow...
...there was no two ways about it. I was going to have to sacrifice three of the best years of my young life in order to attain what would prove to be, or so I at least hoped, a greater level of intellectual sophistication and professional maturity...
What does that mean? [laughs] In a peculiar way, based on what I see in terms of the play and the audience, to some degree that has reality. I don't know if it's a rejection of bourgeois society, it's just, they can't attain it. You know, it's really an underclass kind of situation. But there is an acceptance of what you see on the stage, which basically reflects the East Village. There is an incredible acceptance among people that you would never believe are accepting, in terms of all the different issues that are raised...
Through work on the production, Swados has learned a great deal about the young in the '90s. Particularly she has noticed that young people are under greater pressure to produce and attain specific goals. "People are trying to squash their imaginations. Of course, the kids that I've worked with won't let that happen. But for the most part, their sense of time is much more urgent than mine was," Swados says...