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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author FrancesFitzGerald '62, who endorses divestment in herstatement, said of the voter statements, "It'snice that people express what they're interestedin. It's not that I want the process to be acampaign among competing interests...
Clark this spring is teaching the popularLiterature and Arts B-29, "Beginnings of Modernismin the Visual Arts," and Fine Arts 274a, "Cubism:Seminar." Clark, who was educated at CambridgeUniversity and the Courtauld Institute of LondonUniversity, is the author of three books on Frenchart, including "The Painting of Modern Life...
Schumer, a high-intensity newspaper reporter in college, organizes her version of The Harvard Experience in Retrospect into 10 chapters. The first four chronicle the undergraduate years of the author and her friends, the last six reveal the successes, failures and ambivalent musings of six female members of the Class of '74 nearly a decade later. (The six are composites, drawn from interviews with 50 classmates conducted in the early 1980s...
...author herself floated in and out of relationships and jobs until deciding to become a writer, throughout the book struggling to reconcile what Radcliffe taught her and what it did not. And the last character, the neurotic, rich, tennis star-femme fatale, ran a rubber hose from her car's exhaust pipe to its interior and left the engine running...
Rybakov was lucky. In the still more terrible sweeps that took place later on, innocent victims were sentenced to long terms in labor camps or, in many cases, shot. The Siberian exile that the author endured was mild by comparison. After his three-year sentence, Rybakov drifted from village to village, taking jobs as varied as truck driver and ballroom dance instructor. He never stayed at one place more than a few months because his record as an "Article 58er" made him vulnerable to rearrest by authorities and to a prison-camp sentence...