Word: raskin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help wondering how menopause would be experienced in an "anophiliac" setting -- where elderly women receive the same respect and honor as gray-templed males. Hot flashes might feel like surges of energy, or like the "rush((es)) of revelation" described in an earlier menopause best seller, Barbara Raskin's ebullient 1987 novel, Hot Flashes...
...flaws, however, How Harvard Rules contains several noteworthy pieces of writing. One particularly bright spot is Jamin B. Raskin's analysis of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School. CLS, which challenges the objectivity of the law by examining the ways legal systems work to reinforce political and economic elite, has become one of the last strongholds of real radicalism at the University. Consequently, Bok and the Law School's conservatives have made every effort during the last few years to dismantle--or at least discredit--the movement. Raskin's sarcastic digs at this process...
...Raskin also manages to take a few sharp digs at CLS itself, nothing that the movement has quickly managed to incorporate itself into the status quo. "It is often said that you can tell CLS militants because they tie up the Xerox machine at Cravath, Swain & Moore," he remarks, suggesting that the movement lacks a sense of purpose...