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...DINNER last week, a friend of mine and I discussed the highly publicized refusal of Weld Professor of Law Derrick Bell to teach at Harvard until the Law School tenures a Black woman. My friend suggested that Bell's protest would detract from the scholarly achievement of any Black woman tenured in the near future. This friend--who supported the April class boycott for increased faculty diversity--suggested that even liberalism had a limit...
Before the hoopla subsides, Harvard students and other citizens of the earth should consider the message of Earth Day (April 26) and Earth Week (April 20-27): prosperity at the expense of posterity is no bargain. The crass commercialization of this year's Earth Day events does not detract from the importance of this message...
Oberhuber and Blumenthal are largely indistinguishable on stage, but that does not detract from the production, as the actors are equally amusing. Oberhuber, however, does steal the funniest scene in the work. He remarks on the globular maid Nell: "I could discern countries upon her." When his master, Antipholus of Syracuse, quizzes him about the location of the Netherlands, he responds in mock-shock, "Oh, master, I did not look...
...offensive characters did detract from the show's overall funny tone. John Blackstone's Freida B. Youanme played on every stupid and disturbing stereotype of feminism, from gratuitous references to bra-burning to his very long underarm hair, which Tomarken brushes at one point. This is not Blackstone's fault--he gives a very strong performance--but rather a problem with the character as it is written. This is the kind of character that gives the Pudding its bad name. (Although I must admit that I was at least as upset by the audience's happy acceptance of every enraging...
...prints and drawings of Charlie Chaplin, jazz musicians and dancers, because of their lack of message or commentary, fall flat when contrasted to the powerful images and criticism that make the rest of the exhibit interesting. The "Popular Culture" pieces only detract from the otherwise cohesive display...