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Jonathan W. Engel '86 won the Senior English Orator competition; Yamil H. Kouri--who is being awarded a master's degree this year from the Graduate School of Public Health--will speak as the Graduate Orator, and Gary E. Shapiro '86 will deliver the Latin Oration to a Tercentenary Theatre audience on June...
...House; Christopher D. Carroll, Economics, Lowell House; Timothy C. Chang, Applied Mathematics, Lowell House; Timothy C. Chang, Applied Mathematics, Lowell House; David, H. Chin, Chemistry, Quincy House; Michael S. Dettelbach, History and Science, Quincy House; Philip R. Dormitzer, Anthropology, Dunster House; Glenn D. Ellison, Mathematics, Currier House; Stephen A. Engel, Computer Science, Eliot House; Jesse M. Fried, Economics, Winthrop House; Riyaz A. Kanji, Social Studies, Quincy House; Richard D. Katz, Applied Mathematics, Leverell House; Nicholas R. Lawrence, English and American Language and Literature, North House; Mark Lee, Physics, Winthrop House; Daniel E. Lieberman, Anthropology, Currier House; Neil B. Morganbesser, Applied...
...Engel has blurred the lines among sexual different social trends, trying to demonstrate that male plus female-androgyny-is the wave of the future. Admittedly, male and female role models, and the clothes that express then personalities, do change because of other social factors; as women and men perform increasingly, similar tasks in society, it is natural to expect that their uniform would also become similar. But that does not imply that androgyny, the conscious mixing of masculine and feminine characteristics, is at play here, rather, the sartorial symbols declaring male female have changed...
Even if one accept the contention that androgyny is about to sweep through the heart of Middle America, the timing of all this interest in androgyny betrays Engel's masculine frame of reference. Since the Dior look of the 1940's, women's clothing has become increasingly masculinized. Designers have gradually eschewed the classic Marilyn Monroe shape. Sometimes in the name of making a woman less of a sex object, but the alternative clothes and silhouettes have almost always been masculine. Broad shouldered jackets, business suits, ties, women's briefs; all were taken from the classical men's look...
...second important movement that Engel sweeps under his journalistic rug is the gender-bending by pop icons like Michael Jackson and Boy George. Anne Hollander gives a provacative, hit-and-miss analysis of these male musical mannequins who are "Dressed to Thrill" in the January 28th edition of The New Republic...