Word: pearlman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justin D. Pearlman '75, director of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies and computing at Beth Israel and founder of Unified Medical Systems, a Brookline company which creates and utilizes digital images, is now heading up the effort at Beth Israel to make the use of teleradiography more widespread...
Presently, there is a limited use of teleradiography in the hospital's radionuclear department. But Pearlman, who is also a member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, says he hopes more doctors will soon...
Poor proofreading further mars the interviews. Quotes are closed irregularly; it is often impossible to tell when the writers have finished speaking. In the mini-essay on Carol Maso, Pearlman maintains that the spirit of Kierkegaard must have jinxed her interview, because, as she rather ironically writes, she is "absolutely sure that he died in 1955." Kierkegaard died...
...textual complaints might seem petty, but they are indicative of the overall sloppiness which taints A Voice of One's Own. The book is a chatty, slipshod survey of contemporary writing women, and its academic claims are bankrupt. Failed promise makes A Voice of One's Own absolutely infuriating. Pearlman and Henderson spent precious time talking with these accomplished women and produced mostly...
Startling and tremendous women alone save this book. Pearlman and Henderson's touchy-feely treatment of them and their work, their careless use of therapeutic terms like "passive-aggressive," their forced, hollow intimacy with these women--all are hugely regressive and condescending. The authors seem unable to conceive of these women as true thinkers and artists, and instead approach their writing as though it were therapy for the women writers and, indeed, for all women. Pearlman and Henderson see the writers largely as domestic creatures, concerned primarily with matters of heart and hearth. They have broadened their definition...