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Stout described her upbringing in a small rural community as the daughter of a tenant farmer and a mill worker, where she cherished a dream of "going to college, owning a house and having running water...
ANDREW LAMAR ALEXANDER was born in 1940 in Maryville, Tennessee, an aluminum-mill town beside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His parents, both educators, saw that their son and two daughters were reading before they entered kindergarten. When Lamar was a schoolchild, his days began at 4 a.m., the hour he rose to deliver newspapers. He had piano practice at 6 a.m., plus after-school sports and choir practice. Weekends were for church and Scouts and chores...
...Center for the Arts, tries incredibly hard to be sultry and irreverent in its comical look at sex. All types of sexualities--philandering housewives, been-there done-that prostitutes, straying husbands, and naive waifs--are thrown into LaChiusa's libidinous landscape. The play tackles not just run-of-the-mill sex, but sex between men and between people of different classes, sex in movie theaters and on futons, sex in the 1900s and 1960s...
President Neil L. Rudenstine's new report on "Diversity and Learning," spanning the years 1993 to 1995, is an immaculately written and researched piece of work. It begins with Mill and Milton and goes on to discuss the views of Harvard presidents on the subject of diversity. It even makes for interesting reading...
...report is, in many senses, a work of scholarship. It unites such diverse sources as the works of John Stuart Mill, the autobiography of Henry Adams, reports of former Harvard presidents and decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court to make the case for the importance of diversity in higher education...