Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most people in the Boston area have heard of the new policy restricting use of the Harvard name to identify certain projects or organizations. It's quite a shame that these stipulations don't apply to literature as well. Perhaps this would have encouraged author Pamela Thomas-Graham '85 to consider making some serious revisions to her first novel, A Darker Shade of Crimson. This often misrepresentative book all but circumvents necessary discussion of important racial issues on campus, and it paints high-ranking university officials as one-dimensional puppets at best. Overburdened with persistent and less-than-subtle reminders...
...credit, Thomas-Graham does throw a little spice into the mix for good measure. Shortly after Nikki's investigation begins, she learns that an ex-boyfriend has returned to Harvard and will be taking an assistant professorship in the Government Department, replete with an office just downstairs from her own. Nikki had always imagined that her next encounter with the dashing Dante Rosario would find her stepping out of a limo on Wall Street in some chic Anne Klein suit. Instead, she's wearing a two-year old dress from Urban Outfitters and carrying her lunch in a plastic sack...
Perhaps most disappointing is the novel's blase treatment of important questions concerning race. Certain characters rally around stereotypical Afrocentric causes. Others, serving as archetypal liberals, are more open to the concept of inter-ethnic dating on the modern college campus. But essentially, Thomas-Graham does little more than state the fact that life as a black woman at Harvard is difficult, a point with which most of us certainly wouldn't disagree. Nowhere does she attempt to describe the significance of racial obstacles. Nowhere does she explain what methods, if any, Nikki uses to overcome imposed hardships. Thomas-Graham...
...maintain, for example, a strict distinction between investing in stocks and trading them--and so should you. My hedge fund is divided into two roughly equal pools of money. The investing side is run in the old-fashioned Benjamin Graham-Warren Buffett tradition of seeking value, mainly among small stocks like savings and loans. Here I approach each investment as if I'm buying the company: I carefully research the financials, management, customers and competitors. I don't have to know when the stock price will rise, only that it will. I don't talk about it much, but historically...
...legacy cannot always be measured by such seemingly objective yardsticks. Though there is no film of Nijinsky dancing, no one questions his place of honor in the history of 20th century ballet. Even if her beleaguered company should someday close its doors and her dances cease to be performed, Graham will doubtless be remembered in much the same way, for the shadow she cast was fully as long. Did she invent modern dance? No, but she came to embody it, arrogantly and spectacularly--and, it appears, permanently. "When the legend becomes fact," said the newspaper editor in John Ford...