Word: kirklands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John, Pat's son, who seems to be in his early twenties, sits quietly at the end of the table throughout the conversation, less eager to laud Harvard for its kindness and generosity. "At Eliot and Kirkland House, it's different than it is here," he says. "Over there they treat you like nothing. The kids come in and they don't even speak. They ignore you. They just point or grunt to let you know what they want," he says. The other workers seem disconcerted by this statement. "Well, it's true at some of these other Houses, students...
Sometimes it's the police who are at fault, he admits. In the early '70s, when clashes between demonstrators and police were at their height, Richardson saw a Cambridge police car trying to run over a student demonstrator on the grass between Winthrop and Kirkland Houses. The student fled into Winthrop with the cop in hot pursuit. Richardson pointed the officer in the wrong direction...
Your article on Gelsey Kirkland was beautiful, and it made my twelve years of ballet seem all worthwhile...
...enjoyed Paul Gray's article about Gelsey Kirkland and the "soaring" of American ballet. However, I was disappointed that he began his article by depicting ballet classes as places for "countless thousands of little girls." This ignores the fact that there are boys in some of those classes. And it discourages the parents of other boys who might be considering ballet classes for their sons...
...reading your story about Gelsey Kirkland I was again caught by the feeling I have received so many times when I've read about a show business great or near-great and that is-I'd much rather watch her perform than have to live with...