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...Mine are all good," Pickens replied, eliciting laughter from the audience...
SOMEHOW, OUT OF the past weekend's flurry of verbal assaults, rude interruptions, angry personal statements, and emotional hyperbole, the audience at the MIT-Harvard sponsored Symposium on Women and Pornography managed to indulge occasionally in laughter, what some French feminists could even call "jouissance," gendered female. Politics after all, as guest speaker Catherine MacKinnon noted sarcastically, is a very sexy business...
...Welles defying Washington opposition to stage Marc Blitzstein's radical opera The Cradle Will Rock. And he is already starting to change supposedly factual scenes around, to imagine new ones. "The way I want to do it is much more interesting than I was!" he says, then bursts into laughter. Once again anything is possible, and once again there is gunfire in the hall of mirrors...
...extravagant adjectives ("sensitive, warm, witty, vibrant, successful, handsome, accomplished, incredibly beautiful, cerebral and sultry") while we stand demurely by. But someone has to do it. One competes for attention. One must advertise. One must chum the waters and bait the hook, and go trolling for love and laughter, for caring and sharing, for long walks and quiet talks, for Bach and brie. Nonsmokers only. Photo a must...
This doesn't mean that Harvard, or any other university, imposes an ideology from above. Instead, we create a kind of intellectual pressure cooker--a "peer pressure cooker." Thoughts that don't "fit" are treated with laughter or condescension If you've never been ridiculed by your friends before, try talking about reincarnation in the Winthrop House dining hall or saying that you don't think The New York Times is an impartial newspaper. Then you will discover that the good old knowing smile is the most affective way to kill an idea. It also hurts your feelings...