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...became In a Different Voice. The book grew out of an essay Gilligan wrote in 1975, sitting at her "dining room table," she says. As a graduate student at the Graduate School of Education here, she had noted the absence or inaccuracy of studies about women in the psychological canon...
This year is no different. Under the leadership of tri-captains Mary Greenhill, Brooke Bailey and Carrie Cunningham, the 1991-92 Crimson top nine is determined to prove that no one can underestimate it and get away with it. Just one game against the aggressive Greenhill, with her canon serve, or the tenacious stunner, sophomore Jordanna Fraiberg, who has filled the number-one spot since she arrived at Harvard, is enough to get the point across--these folks don't take too kindly when told they can't do something...
...seems to me that anyone who still desires such a canon of judgment has ill-considered the magnitude of the freedom that Gomes has won us through its absence, whereby we are at liberty to estimate every inconvenient argument drawn from the Bible or the Fathers as false and deceitful. The Rev. Gomes has powerfully demonstrated the impossibility of thence deriving any moral precept, and thereby won us a perpetual liberty from their gloomy and awkward dictates...
...movies," Scorsese says, "I tell them, 'Thank you, but I bet I've seen more movies than you have, and I know what's really good. I know what I'm up against." Fair enough. But his contemporaries are up against something equally formidable: the Scorsese canon. Cape Fear is a worthy addition to it; the new film meets the challenge of starting at fever pitch and then ascending to a climax that plays like a hurricane of hysteria...
Burnheimer said that Schor is uniquely able to bring to a variety of fields and approaches to her work. One of Schor's strengths is her ability to give new readings to works of the canon, he said...