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Although her new self-defined gender role as a woman met suspicion in her native Orthodox Jewish community, Bornstein reconciled with her ailing mother, who had acknowledged her son-turned-daughter as a "lesbian" in a very closely-knit circle of friends...
...history professor, tells this tale with wonderful narrative grace and moral force. He deftly explores ethical compromises and nuances: the Levy family's decision to pass as Aryan during the war; the struggles between the assimilated Reform Jews of New Orleans, reluctant to stir up trouble; and the tight-knit "New American" club of Holocaust survivors who insisted on aggressively bearing witness against neo-Nazis...
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...inherent to any unified artistic community--namely, that it tends to marginalize movements towards experimentation. Inevitably, any society, no matter how large or small, develops norms. While such norms can be essential for social and political bodies, they can become stifling for artistic groups. Think of nearly any closely-knit collection of artists--from the Pre-Raphelites to the Dadaists--and you'll probably be able to trace a trajectory of initial innovation followed by a slow descent into self-referentiality, imitation and, worst of all, dullness. Clearly, the relative unity of the Harvard theater world is nowhere near crisis...
...same time, the normalizing effects of a tightly knit artistic community can't be overlooked. I know of at least two other universities of greatly different natures--namely Brown University and George Washington University--that also aren't known for an overwhelming academic commitment to drama. Still, they manage to put out a steady stream of experimental student productions. In fact, their dramatic communities seem to fall on the other extreme of social normalization--i.e., "traditional" stagings and "traditional" plays are looked down upon. Such attitudes are every bit as confining as our own theatrical prejudices at Harvard, but they...