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...anticipated that last week's panel on feminism at Harvard would suffer from such an unstructured debate, and to a certain extent it did. After all, as the panelists kept repeating, feminism means different things to different people. But in spite of the imperfectly defined subject matter, the discussion was a success because each panelist gave his or her own definition of feminism at the outset and a uniform opinion emerged--that at its most basic level, feminism is the expectation or demand that women be viewed as equal to men in the eyes of the law and of society...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Coming Back to Feminism | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...There are many concerns that we simply have not been able to answer because design development has not gone behind the conceptual stage," Power says. "Issues of building height, footprint, configuration, loading issues, and the extent to which the existing open space behind Gund is preserved [will need to be solved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Knafel Center: A Good Neighbor Policy | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...just me, or has the news been larded with stories that speak eloquently and amusingly of our cultural obsession with youth and newness? Well, to some extent, it probably is just me: I happen to be turning 40 this week, so I'm a little sensitive. But I swear, every paper I read, every newscast I watch, all I'm hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Expiration-Date Culture | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...chronological organization of the book shows the trajectory of Heaney's extensive digging motif over the course of his work. Digging first appeared in his earlier books such as Death of a Naturalist, Door Into the Dark, and to some extent the prose-poem collection Stations in their use of language to delve into the fertile cultural expanses of his childhood in Ireland. This "digging" into his private and cultural past (first addressed in his famous poem by that same name) soon unearthed the central myth of the bog people, men and women (apparently sacrificed to Mother Earth to guarantee...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sifting Through Thirty Years of Seamus Heaney | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...then being killed himself by the rival claimants. The way each character rises up in life before being assasinated creates the tragedy that makes the play a great work. It is entrancing to watch the plot tighten around the characters, made easy targets by their incapacity to fathom the extent of Richard's evil...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE MADNESS OF RICHARD III | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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