Word: kramer
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Already the book has drawn Kramer into an exchange with an outraged moral conservative in the pages of the New York Times. But for antidivorce activists to make Kramer an icon for modern self-indulgence would be to miss the mark. Beneath the book's air of moral relativism lies a low-key celebration of austerity, even a quiet, almost covert conservatism. The closest thing to a central message is the advice Kramer gives during one of the book's fictional case studies: "The problem is not your choice; the problem is how you live with that choice...
...Peter Kramer has a gift for timing. His last book, Listening to Prozac, came out as Prozac was reaching best-seller status, and soon joined it. His new book--a guide for people thinking about leaving their spouse or significant other--hits the bookstores as divorce is becoming an ever more contentious political issue...
...very title of Kramer's book--Should You Leave?--is likely to antagonize the growing legion of antidivorce activists. It seems to validate the anguished self-absorption that has made baby boomers so good at generating revenue for psychiatrists and so bad at staying married. A half-century ago, people didn't sit around wondering whether their spouse was maximizing their self-actualization. In fact, thanks to the lingering Victorian moral climate, most didn't even consider divorce a live option. (What a time saver!) Nowadays, as Kramer himself suggests, it is almost normal for married people to be quietly...
...academic department of Lesbian and Gay Studies remains a fantasy, a full-fledged student center for gay and lesbian students a distant dream. In the dormitories, a homophobic student scribbles "faggot" on the wall, as occurred in Dunster House this past spring. When Angels in America playwright Larry Kramer offered millions of dollars to Yale University, his alma mater, for the creation of a professorship of Lesbian and Gay Studies, it was denied. When students at Harvard agitated for a University-sponsored lesbian and gay student center, we were offered a tiny basement office for the BGLTSA...
DIED. LEO JAFFE, 88, successful Columbia Pictures chairman who helped steer the studio past the rough shoals of a 1970s financial scandal involving Columbia's president; in New York City. Hits during his tenure included Kramer vs. Kramer and Close Encounters of the Third Kind...