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LILLA CABOT PERRY: AN AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Through her friendship with Monet, Perry (1848-1933), a wellborn Bostonian, wife and mother of three, became a pioneering exponent of Impressionism in the U.S. This handsome exhibition aims to restore her once eminent reputation. Through...
...born polymath who plays jazz piano, reviews records and ballet, and is gearing up to write a biography of H.L. Mencken. When he moved to New York from the Midwest three years ago, Teachout was dismayed to discover that the city was, as he puts it, "hostile to civilized friendship." There was little opportunity for people of his age and ideology to coalesce for intellectual sustenance. "Conservatives and libertarians exist in an adversary culture," he explains. "You need a community where you don't have to be arguing first causes all the time." Teachout and George Sim Johnston...
...over the card table of Billy Beavis (Jonathan Hammel), who has been home for less than a day from a twelve-month stint at an insane asylum. To celebrate his return he has brought together what remains of his family and friends to participate in an old ritual of friendship--"a poker session." Over the course of the play this friendly game gradually reveals itself to be a carefully orchestrated trial of vengeance. Along with his friend Teddy (C. Michael Rodriguez), a fellow outpatient from the asylum, Billy presides over a tense and engaging indictment of his guests, whose unconscious...
...past, the final clubs have affected my life little; now I have to acknowledge their place and their impact on my position in the Harvard community. I have to acknowledge their impact on our friendship. Final clubs do not exist in a vacuum. When you go there, you leave our communal space for a private space all too often unaccountable to the social values and standards upheld by an open and diverse community...
...friendship should they discover the friend is homosexual (28% of young women would...