Word: juliets
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...novel space, giving way to an As You Like It on the beach or Hamlet in the actual ruins of Elsinore. The second, or conceptual tack, applies an external theme to the play’s framework, leading to Richard III in fascist Italy or Romeo and Juliet at a post-apocalyptic rave. The third posits some new interpretation of a character that flows against the traditional grain, allowing a lovable, misunderstood Iago or a courageous, bloodthirsty Hamlet. Hyperion’s current version of Macbeth takes both the first and third avenues...
...book, a rather unhappy realization for me,” she says. “There were many elements of the plot, similarities in language, tone, images. There was no word for word plagiarism. And I know you can make arguments about copying literary form and that Romeo and Juliet can appear in many different forms but this was not that simple a story...
Cornel West’s decision is indeed sad for Harvard, but over the past few years I have watched most of my favorite women professors leave with a lot less fanfare and a far smaller outcry. Where was the series of front-page stories for Juliet Schor, an internationally-known economist who was beloved by her students, when she left for Boston College last year? Seyla Benhabib, one of the top feminist theorists in the country, defected to Yale, while other important and influential women were denied tenure or elected to depart upon seeing how low their chances were...
...angry liberalism peppered with snide remarks regarding the wealthy, the established, the nationalist, the patriotic. I caress my Dover edition of Theory of the Leisure Class and use phrases such as “pecuniary emulation” and “consumer consciousness.” I think Juliet Schor (czarina of “Shop ’Til You Drop”) embodies the ideal human. I adhere to Harvard liberalism and hatred of the military. However, after the break-up with said executive, my true affections and affiliations surface rapidly...
...also features interviews with Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, Juliet Schor, a former women’s studies professor, and Lani Guinier ’71, the first black woman to be tenured at Harvard Law School...