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Suleiman says she will travel to Paris to maintain these contacts during the second half of her year-long sabbatica, which began this week. The main project of her leave of absence will be a book tentatively titled The Problems of Avant Garde Writing. The work is intended to complement her last book Authoritarian Fictions, which analyzed the political and ideological "message" novels against which the avant-gardists are rebelling...
...these avant-garde groups is the "new French feminists," to whose ideas Suleiman is very sympthetic. As a member of the Women's Studies Committee. "She has made a really important contribution," says Assistant Professor of Government Ethel Klein. Suleiman and Professor of Hindu Religion Diana L. Eck "are concerned about women on campus trying to set role models and being taken seriously," Klein adds...
With small change she supported avant-garde film making, Close-Up, the first important cinema magazine, and contributed to the psychoanalytic movement...
...fall. Workers dig out a large circle and start laying plumbing, while curious passers by block entrance to the Science Center. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe Office of the Arts has anticipated the interest in "community art" in distributing grant money, a large chunk of which has gone to Christo, the avant-garde artist, to visit Harvard and wrap the Science Center...
...first day of 1984. Through bleary eyes, you tune into television, to be greeted by "Good morning, Mr. Orwell." Oh no, has the British author's dark and malevolent fable of total totalitarianism finally arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the new year with a public television, cross-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and "the first media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with...