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...were powerful out of all proportion to their numbers.”Recalling Schatz’s incredible prominence on campus, he says, “It was not an easy time to be gay and open about being gay.”LEGISLATING EQUALITYThe climax of the movement came when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences met in May of 1981 to vote on a proposal made by Colantuono to include sexual orientation in the Faculty’s non-discrimination policy.Nine of the University’s 11 faculties had already adopted such a policy...
...become his mistress. Soon this horror gives way to another as the Nazis retreat from the advancing Russian troops. The Russian's vodka-fueled barbarism sends Esther fleeing into a snowstorm, pulling Miriam behind in an open suitcase. This intense sequence becomes the book's dramatic and thematic climax. While some may see the hand of a benevolent God in sending the snows and a shelter to protect them, for Miriam the site of a dog shot by the soldiers brings her to a different conclusion...
...When Bechdel quickly reveals both her father's premature death and that he led a secret life as a deeply closeted, shame-filled gay man, it comes as a shock. What author would give away both a natural narrative climax and the key to a person's mystery right at the beginning of the book? The answer is: the kind of author not interested in easy drama and simplistic explanations. In a series of chapters that more or less follow Bechdel from young childhood until her college years, the book traces her father's story...
...something that will never be given him. He must buy, steal or try to destroy it. The other characters, especially Rosalba and Gino, are not mere stooges for Geremia; they are by turns victims and connivers, whom Geremia inadvertently inspires to dip into his book of tricks. By the climax, Geremia is "a hole in love," Rosalba "a bride on fire...
...fourth is that Climates has a real climax: at the end, as at the beginning, a tear down Bahar's cheek. This time, though, it's a lovely epiphany that fulfills and finalizes her relationship with...