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...fashioned is precisely the description that the avant-garde would attach to Briton David Pownall's Pride and Prejudice, being given its U.S. premiere in a meticulous production by Kenneth Frankel at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Shrewdly and wittily adapted from Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel, Pownall's tale has a beginning, middle and end. Its intrigues of love, marriage and social climbing unfold in period costume on representational sets. The characters are affectionate exaggerations of recognizable types. This is satire without much bite: the play's boldest statements are that there is more to life than...
According to Ralph A. Austen, co-chair of the University of Chicago’s committee on African and African American studies, Harvard’s Af Am department emphasizes cultural studies, an approach that he argues fails to address the more controversial aspects of the African American experience...
Culture is “an area where you can be very positive,” Austen says. “People here [at Chicago] would say that’s okay, but we’re more scholarly...
Wilson dismisses Austen and Norment’s criticisms as “not very well informed...
We’ve been a balancing force for each other, too. Throughout our Harvard careers, I was there to talk with him about Austen novels and he was there to take me on off-trail biking expeditions. I would tell him the IM basketball championships weren’t so important in the scheme of things, while he frequently told me that my gossip from the world of undergraduate journalism was less than scintillating. I like to sarcastically say “Dan, you keep me so real.” But the truth is, he does...