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...admiration of colleagues, though some were dismayed by news from London last week. Redgrave, a pro-Palestinian activist, is urging British Actors' Equity to bar members from working in Israel. "I'm heartsickened she would take this stand," said Yellen. "It seems like the antithesis of the understanding and insight her performance was meant to promote...
Kurzman, writing with the unparalleled probity and insight of the National Inquirer, breathes the question "Is the rumor true?" regarding the special treatment of athletes at Harvard. Rumor? Kurzman obviously did a lot of legwork researching this editorial. Better meals? The Varsity Club training table abolished in 1969. Athletes eat the same meals as everyone else (although in much greater quantities). Tutoring, another perk Kurzman cites, is available to athletes only through the Study Council, the Writing Center, etc. While the employees of the Athletic Department are predominantly athletes, it also employs other students and senior citizens. Most athletes...
...history to find something rotten in Byzantium, the "delirium and horror of the East." There is also the calamity of modernist architecture: "Ubiquitous concrete, with the texture of turd and the color of an upturned grave." The flip side of this disgust is nostalgia. Though Brodsky overwhelms with startling insight and provocations, he is most affecting in "In a Room and a Half," an account of living with his parents in their small Leningrad apartment. There, behind armoires and bookshelves, he built a cozy sanctum. It is his book's truest image: the poet segregated in his heaven...
...academic discipline. Scholars in this field may have originally had their degrees in sociology, psychology, history, political science, anthropology, literature and other fields. They have focused on one part of their discipline, such as "women in literature" just as a biologist may specialize in genetics. They gain further insight through interdisciplinary approaches. Unless Mr. Wise wishes to assert that the above mentioned academic fields are invalid or that interdisciplinary approaches, such as the Social Studies concentration here at Harvard, are academically invalid he has no basis to assert that women's studies are academically invalid...
...this insight should require seven books is another mystery, at least for those who believe that readers are capable of arriving at non- comprehension on their own. Coles' distaste for ideas and intellectual analysis is profound and usually presented in his books along with the belief that truth will somehow radiate out of unexamined statements by children. Coles seems to think morality is the indefinable and unpredictable result of simply making decisions. A footnote says, "I can only get a bit mystical here, summon the notion of action as 'transcendence,' and, admittedly, risk murkiness and evasion." But why pass along...