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...field of education, recent studies indicating that females are regularly shortchanged in the classroom have had a large impact on the training of teachers. The Harvard School of Education has been in the forefront of this growing field of research, having graduated such influential scholars such as Myra and David Sadker. Gilligan's latest appointment solidifies that leadership. We hope that the controversial nature of her work will spark more discussions about gender and education at this University...
...hand-written post-script, Myra A. Mayman, the director of the OFA, wrote, "The Council gave your application full and lengthy consideration but decided not to fund...
Call it the Neverending Party, or the Anniversary from Hell. The play is set in present-day New York in the home of an upperclass couple, Charlie and Myra Brock. It is the night of their 10th wedding anniversary, and they are giving--or are supposed to be giving--a party to celebrate the occasion. The first guests, Ken Gorman (Jed Silverstein '97) and wife Chris (Abigail H. Gray '99), arrive just in time to hear the sound of a gunshot. Upon rushing up to the bedroom, they discover that Charlie, for motives unknown, has shot himself...
...rest of the Brocks' friends arrive, couple by couple (four total), the guests already present try to prevent the newcomers from learning of Charlie's apparent suicide attempt--for attempted suicide is a criminal offense and, more importantly, a potential scandal for poor Charlie and Myra, not to mention the guests. But the bumbling attempts at a cover-up, further jeopardized by a second, accidental gunshot, dissolve into utter chaos with the end of Act One. Act Two confronts all the couples with the necessity of explaining matters to a pair of police officers...
...running joke, of course, is that the audience never once sees Charlie or Myra throughout the course of the play, though their private lives become the primary concern of everyone on stage. Despite what the title promises, rumors don't really play a crucial role in all this. There's no classic stripping away of pretenses and whispered suggestions to reveal deliciously nasty truths and scandals that implicate all the characters. Nothing, in fact, is revealed: we never do find out what exactly happened to Charlie and Myra, and it doesn't matter. What does matter is the effect their...