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...world where Sonny Bono legislates and Naomi Campbell writes novels, why can't ROSEANNE help guest-edit an issue of the New Yorker? Editor Tina Brown's decision to ask the vernacular star to mix it up with the venerable magazine's staff for an issue on the American woman was a cocktail some writers found hard to swallow. Longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier faxed in his resignation. "It's a theological issue," says Frazier, meaning not that Roseanne is God but that writing is spiritual. "The New Yorker is about writing. Is writing sitting in a room pitching...
However, the many Americans who concluded from the 1913 Armory Show that modern art was foreign, perverse and un-American would have found confirmation of that in Stettheimer's guest list: to reach it, you pretty much had to be European or gay, or both. Then you would find your way into her paintings, as did the theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black...
...paper, please don't hesitate to write a letter to the editor. The letters section of the paper exists exclusively for this purpose. If you think something's great or something stinks on campus, page two of The Crimson is also available to publish student opinion pieces as Guest Commentaries five times each week...
Some of the dozens of guest speakers at this year's conference included Susan Zirinsky, senior producer at CBS News: Jolene Unsoeld, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives; Faith Adiele, coordinator of Education for Action; and Margaret H. Marshall, Harvard's vice president and general counsel...
...guest commentary appearing in The Crimson ("Defining Academic Freedom," Jun. 30, 1995), Alan M. Dershowitz strongly criticized Harvard Medical School's inquiry into Dr. John Mack's work with people who claim to have been "abducted" by alien creatures from outer space. He charged that Dr. Mack, a professor of psychiatry, was being investigated because of his unorthodox ideas and his choice of research topic. Mr. Dershowitz professed concern about the "chilling of academic freedom" resulting from the inquiry and he asked: "Will the next professor who is thinking about an unconventional research project be deterred by the prospect...