Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could not help but notice the article about Camille Paglia ("Paglia Criticizes Harvard Schoarls," March 20) and was particularly struck about her subtle yet biting attack on Harvard's cultural studies center. I have worked at Harvard's cultural studies Center. I have worked at Harvard's Center for Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS) for almost two years and thus felt personally compelled to respond to her attack...
...foremost, to the baby boomers now coping with being in their 40s. Twenty-year-olds, says record executive Bowen, "are having their first romance, and we're talking about the third divorce over here." If rock is about feral impulses, country is about spiritual nourishment. Cultural critic Camille Paglia, who has celebrated the Dionysian power of rock music in her writings, believes the genre suffered an identity crisis as it moved further from the rural immediacy of folk and blues and lost its restless, questing spirit. "In rock you're getting middle-class suburban kids who have no experience...
...Paglia also called Susan R. Suleiman, professorof Romance and comparative literatures, "one ofthe great conference groupies of all time." Pagliaalleged that the women who are at the forefront offeminist scholarship today "kissed every male assin view" in order to get there...
...Paglia received thunderous applause at the endof her speech. It was obvious, Mansfield said,that she had "made a lot of friends here...
...many audience members clearly disagreedwith her as well. Assistant Professor ofComparative Literature and of History andLiterature Svetlana Boym said that one of Paglia'sstatements--that "you need to break the eggs inorder to make an omelette"--sounded like somethingJoseph Stalin would have said