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...think feminism should be joyful, playful, and me having the ability to choose these things,” she said. Martin, who referred to herself as the “youngin’, as you can probably tell,” said she initially found her mother??s feminism of the ’80s “ugly,” with its oversized shoulder pads and swishy skirts. Despite the presence of feminism in her childhood, Martin said she did not understand the need for a collective lens until she witnessed the “dissolution...
...Yiddish language or Jewish traditions didn’t prevent anyone from having a good time. “A Little Night Yiddish” is a celebration of Jewish culture, communicated through traditional Yiddish songs and subject matter (this included the age-old “Jewish Mother?? stereotype, which formed the basis of many comic one-liners). The first part focused on the plights of Jewish immigrants to the United States, while the second was set in a vaudeville Yiddish theatre. The wandering plotlines, however, left the viewer confused. In the first act, for example...
...time between European tours by visiting his daughter. Ruma worries that her father’s visit is an indication that he wants to claim his traditional right to live with her as paterfamilias. When she sees him planting hydrangeas—“They were always your mother??s favorite...in this country, that is”—her fears are confirmed. However, confounding all tradition, he has no intention of staying. Unbeknownst to Ruma, her father has already found surrogate female companionship in a widowed fellow traveler, and when she discovers she actually...
...make your life miserable, with crimson baby booties and Harvard bath towels—even Harvard teddy bears. Your family dinners have been interrupted for years by Harvard students calling to ask for donations. When you were in eighth grade, you had to trek up to Cambridge for your mother??s 25th reunion. It rained the whole time, and you had to listen to fifty year-old Pitches trying to recreate jazz standards.And yet you still applied. After hearing about your uncle’s halcyon days in Eliot or your father’s failed UC campaign...
Pouya P. Alimagham, a first-year masters student at CMES and the president of HISO, described the celebration as akin to Mother?...