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...Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, who has tried to propel Radcliffe further into the realm of public policy, predicts "some reordering of priorities as women become involved and a more critical mass within the legislative bodies...
Nelson's says she copes with her academic workand multiple commitments by using her dramaticactivities to release the pressure of herpoliticial ones. "Culture is a way for me torelease, to get out of the political realm, to besomeone else, to be in a totally differentsituation," Nelson says. "Going to play rehearsalis like therapy for me in a lot of ways...
...when it comes to the partisan politics of the election, Jean Corlette, one of Harvard's there directors of federal relations, says the hands-off stance is also based on former President Derek C. Bok's belief that "morally and pragmatically, the University must stay out of the political realm...
Without grownups to sort out right and wrong, what is acceptable and what is not, judgments that should belong to the moral-responsible realm fall to that of sensational empathy, of momentary response. Discussion is reduced to jolts & of electric horror and freezes instantly as attitude -- as racial stereotype. Society becomes a war of videos, in which orderly brainwork, any reasoning over rights and wrongs, is impossible. Cosby gave way on American television screens to endlessly reduplicated, hall-of-mirrors replays of the Rodney King video and the truck-driver video: the truck-driver video being the one shot from...
...Leimbach's second novel, Sun Dial Street, is an affecting, amusing and unpredictable blend of characters and events that ring true in the minds of readers when they enter the realm of the chaotic Haskell family. This book marks an achievement for this young author, and if this is just the chrysalis, you had better be prepared for some fascinating future attempts...