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Zinn spoke on “Writing about Emma Goldman” to about forty attendees at the Murray Center of the Radcliffe Institute as part of their Brown Bag Lunch Series last week. An anarchist and staunch feminist, Goldman herself is arguably more forgotten than she deserves, and mainstream accounts fail to portray the richness of her character. Zinn’s speech was filled with innumerable digressions—often self-deprecating asides tinged with his dry humor—designed to illuminate her life but shaped by his perspective...
...parallels the currents of the radical movement of her time. Filled with fury by the Haymarket Affair of 1886—in which the government arrested several suspects for a bomb attack at the Haymarket labor riots in Chicago with no substantive evidence beyond their union associations—Goldman found herself compelled towards pacifism, a “rethinking of the symbolic violence” that pervaded the era. Her inner strength helped lead to a new mission for anarchists as political organizers—a paradox, since those who oppose governments must frequently turn to them to accomplish...
Aware of the daunting time commitment that awaits her at Goldman, Peng is making tentative plans to travel in Europe after graduation. “Once I’m in Hong Kong I won’t really have the time to explore Europe,” Peng explains. “So this is a great opportunity for me. It will be nice running into Harvard grads in Barcelona and not in the Science Center...
...time to see a different part of the world.” Peng is also making plans to spend time with family and friends outside the confines of the office. Her parents have committed to a fall trip to Hong Kong and Peng believes (hopes?) that Goldman understands the need for rookies to have some down time...
...least one secure option. By now he can’t even remember the names of all the companies he applied to. “I applied to a few places—10, I think,” he says. “McKinsey, Katz, BCG, Goldman, two at Credit Suisse, Bain...three more…[pause]…that was back in October.” A few minutes later he thinks he’s remembered another but just lists Bain again...