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...flaws of their institutions, their shock at having their secret actions exposed and then condemned in some quarters, and their enduring love for the ideals of their workplaces. They also discovered they shared much in their personal lives, and they enjoyed cheering one another on. The following is an excerpt of their conversation...
Mann read an excerpt from the play, contrasting a police officer who decries the moral decay of his town with “Sister Boom Boom,” a gay man dressed as a Catholic nun—both people that Mann interviewed...
Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language Elizabeth D. Lyman read a racially charged excerpt from Amiri Baraka’s play Dutchman...
There is a poem by Adrienne Rich ’51 that I love, an excerpt from which seems an appropriate way of ending this column: “If the mind were clear/and if the mind were simple you could take this mind/this particular state and say/This is how I would live if I could choose/This is what is possible.” And so, perhaps taking leaps is a better prescription than slowing down, finding out not just what is, but what is possible...
There is a poem by Adrienne Rich ’51 that I love, an excerpt from which seems an appropriate way of ending this column: “If the mind were clear/and if the mind were simple you could take this mind/this particular state and say/This is how I would live if I could choose/This is what is possible.” And so, perhaps taking leaps is a better prescription than slowing down, finding out not just what is, but what is possible...