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Just for kicks, imagine New York City, 1868: The bustling center of American culture abounded with theaters, P.T. Barnum-esque museums of curiosities, and the middle and upper classes whose sensibilities these entertainments are offended. British burlesque star Lydia Thompson and her sensual troupe, the British Blondes—short skirts and satirical skits in tow—stepped off their ship and into a foreign country teetering on the cultural waves of a nation in flux...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting a Leg Up | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...through history and the reality of Cal’s reflective intransigence. The novel’s historical reflections are interspersed with fragments of Cal’s search for emotional connection, and his flight from that connection into anonymity and loneliness. These passages manifest Cal as the tragic center of the novel. “If this story is written only for myself, then so be it. But it doesn’t feel that way. I feel you out there, reader. This is the only kind of intimacy I’m comfortable with. Just...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Organizers of the proposed Student Community Center­, which would house space for student gatherings at the Democracy Center at 45 Mount Auburn Street­, met in Boylston Hall last night to present their plans on the center’s construction, design, and finances...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Student Community Center Foundation Plans For New Center | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Joshua J. Nuni ’10, president of the Student Community Center Foundation, said he anticipates the SCC will open in 2013 despite the need to raise 10 to 15 million dollars in order to begin construction, hire consultants and lawyers, and fund an endowment to maintain the center...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Student Community Center Foundation Plans For New Center | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

According to Nuni, only $5,025 has been raised to date. Seven-hundred dollars of that sum was raised over the summer by the Undergraduate Council, which turned over the controversial effort to create the center to the SCCF...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Student Community Center Foundation Plans For New Center | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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