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...followed in 1999 by “Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.”In “Stiffed,” Faludi wrote that men’s hostile response to feminism was part of a larger problem within a “consumer-driven, celebrity-saturated culture,” which fails to value community involvement. “The response I got often was ‘No, no, I want to hear Backlash 2....I want to hear more bad things about men, aren’t they assholes, aren?...
...1970s with the intention of converting into offices.The University began emptying the building by leaving apartments vacant when their tenants left. By February of 1981, the building was empty—except for two tenants whom Harvard asked the city to evict.“People were being literally driven out of their neighborhoods by Harvard expansion,” says David Sullivan, a 1977 graduate of Harvard Law School who was elected to the City Council in 1979.Harvard’s authority as a landlord was drawn from the Dover Amendment, a state statute that exempts non-profit...
...turns out, the world doesn’t make way, no matter how great we are and how big our dreams. Whether we believe in God or not, we are secretly driven by the vague feeling that we were not endowed with our brains and talents for nothing. We have a duty to perform, a service to render to the world. We all come to Harvard carrying a dream, a private ambition for ourselves. But most of us will leave our dreams behind as we move through life. Unless our dreams are to become upper-middle class professionals, we will...
...premier private sailing yacht in America, “a 72-foot yawl, which was the finest boat that money could buy.”Swett and Cunningham, both interested in sailing, accepted.Swett says that he remembered his surprise when he first met Brown.“The chauffeur-driven Chrysler drove up to Thayer South and out came Brown, just bouncing and smiling, full of enthusiasm,” recalls Swett. “He also brought an icebox, a rug, pictures to put on the walls and eventually a sofa.”“His mother...
...Advanced Study on his solution to a math problem which has been unsolved for over a decade.2/25: Stillman Infirmary accepts its second woman patient ever, even though it is almost ‘impossible’ to treat women there. Three days later, eight Adams House residents were driven from their rooms when a fire broke out between the third and fourth floors of ‘B’ entry.3/5: The Freshman Smoker’s future is questioned after one freshman was knocked unconscious and the affair lost $250, of which $100 was lent by the Student Council.3/7...