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Harvard's failure to complete an acceptable plan has created some tension between women currently employed by Harvard and the Administration. And despite the Administration's oft-voiced commitment to non-discriminatory hiring, and its assurances of the existence of comprehensive plans to implement the requisite recruitment, impatience, especially among women in the faculty ranks, has gradually turned to distrust...
Marx has become the oft-invoked patron saint of a new style of far-left political activism. There are at least 800 left-wing organizations in Western Europe, operating outside-and often directly against-the established Communist and Socialist parties. Although these organizations vary widely in strength and strategy, they are clearly different from the ad hoc fronts that united the rebellious students who took to the barricades in Paris, Rome and Berlin in the spring of 1968. Essentially romantics, those earlier revolutionaries took their inspiration from Berkeley and Columbia. If they carried the red flag of Marxism, they seemed...
...launched energetically into his own Troublesome Ivories, which turned out not to be troublesome at all. At the end of W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues, Blake set off a series of feathery right-hand twirls up the scale that must have been what was originally meant by the oft-abused phrase tickling the ivories...
While discussing the oft-asked question of whether God is male or female, and how this contributes to women's oppression. Stendahl said that the traditional male-ness of God is an "accident to the faith...
...song on Journey is unsatisfying Particular achievements, include "Open Up, Summertime," a jaunty ode to summer that wryly understates an oft-expressed continent: "Drop me in a sunny spot/I'd rather be hot than not," "Poem to Eat" combines Siemen's haunting, bittersweet music with an evocative Iyric by Pran Landesman; the singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street...