Word: pet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book interweaves Genet's early years with excerpts from his highly autobiographical novels, creating a rich fabric of the facts and the fiction they gave rise to. The biography tracks Genet to Paris, where he became Cocteau's literary find, his "golden thug," and later, Sartre's "pet queer." White imbues even the most frequently told stories with a novel charm. His recreation of the De Beauvoir-Sartre headquarters at the Cafe Deux Magots is sardonic and affectionate, and the deliciously lengthy and opinionated portrait of Cocteau could stand on its own as a study of a "genius who never...
...French government, its reigning man of letters and its most famous philosopher; it was a terrible blow to Genet the outsider, one that kept him from writing seriously for another fifteen years. "Canonized, pardoned, consecrated, assimilated, Genet was no longer society's scourge. He had become its pet," White writes...
...will fill the vacuum at the physical center of the university. What inevitably fills new space in a bureaucratic organism? More organs of bureaucracy. Boylston, now a convenient and centrally located academic building, will quarter the Freshman Dean's Office. Perhaps this is compensation for the proctors loss of pet-keeping privileges. Considering the importance that Rudenstine ascribes to physical position, we should all recognize the implication of a bureaucratic bloc in the center of the yard while academic disciplines are relegated to their own peripheral ghetto. Thus we should not be surprised that the University perfunctorily apologizes as students...
...Christina S. Griffith, assistant dean of first-year students, says the outdoors, not Harvard, has helped her pet most...
...were upset to hear that the Yard will now become a Pet-Free Zone. We understand concerns about allergies, and we know an un-housetrained puppy might be bad news. Our main concern, though, is loneliness...