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Renamed the Barker Center for the Humanities, the former Freshman Union officially opened its doors to the Harvard community from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. last Thursday after eighteen months of closure, allowing some of the humanities departments to begin the moving in process...
...past week, the English department, which used to be located next door in Warren House, and the Religion department, which was formerly housed on the second floor of Phillips Brooks House, have both already moved into their new spaces in the building, said Maureen A. McCarthy, manager of the Barker Center...
Several other departments that will be moving in to the Barker Center said they are excited about the move...
Representatives from the Afro-American Studies Department, which will move from its Harvard Square location above the CVS store on Mass. Ave. to a space in the Barker Center, likewise say they are looking forward to the move...
...Barker played Amanda's "persona" a bit parodically, making her endlessly repeated reminiscences and her efforts to maintain the "Southern feminine" charm of her youth seems almost gratingly ridiculous--but that is, after all, the point; Amanda's ridiculousness makes her as much a pathetic figure as a comic one. She is moreover, in her own narrow-minded way, a fighter who puts a brave if silly face on things and who stubbornly refuses to admit defeat--which makes the cruelty of her final breakdown, powerfully portrayed by Barker, all the more painful...