Word: gish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entering my senior year, I understand better the significance of Rudenstine's injunction. At this fall's Radcliffe Convocation, I once again was lectured on the values of experimentation, when Gish Jen '77 reminded the audience of the magic of flexibility, the excitement of explotation. This time, I heeded these words not for their seeming platitude, but instead for their sudden truth, I am nearing the end of my four years, yet am still pursuing many of the same goals which I brought with me into Harvard Yard that first September afternoon...
...Author Gish Jen '77 delivered the keynote address to an audience of about...
...Gish Jen was really inspirational," said Maureen C. Hickey...
...Chicago-based alternative band is quite capable of turning out three-minute, radio-ready songs (Today, Disarm). It also excels in creating longer, art-pop compositions that wander about for seven minutes or more, exploring a variety of musical textures, melodies and emotions. The band's first CD, Gish (1991), featured assertive rock that was at once primal and cerebral; its second, Siamese Dream (1993), was a buzzing, humming, intricately constructed maze of sounds...
These models provide a beginning. Learn from the experiences of others also. People like Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. DuBois, whose works resonate for us as people of color. And most importantly, learn from what writers like Gish Jen, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan show us of the ways in which our sisters view us (views which perhaps we might not always like seeing...