Word: rivers
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When Edgar Lee Masters' classic novel Spoon River Anthology first appeared in 1915, it had the popular advantage of topicality but was freighted with scandal. Masters had compiled reminiscences portraying all the virtues and vices of small town life during the Civil War and Reconstruction and some of the tales depicted actual people from the town where he grew...
Charles Aidman's 1963 adaptation succeeded partly because audiences liked the "adult" themes and partly because a political message emerged from the small rural cemetery in which it was set. All classes, races and religions from Spoon River were buried there together indiscriminately, and the equality implied naturally struck Aidman as utopian...
...memory is adapted, treated and socialized. Like Levi-Strauss recording folklore, Masters was preserving in writing an oral history that would have continued to transform itself over the years beyond recognition of its original form or died out altogether had he not interceded. How residents of Spoon River handled memory is the most trenchant aspect of the Nora Theater's current production...
Even though changes at Radcliffe have attracted much attention, it will be just as important for undergraduate women to make their needs known to the Harvard administration. Perhaps the most pressing concern facing female students is to turn the fear generated this fall by attacks along the river and near Mather House into positive strides toward a safer campus...
...Runners Alliance is being formed. Campus safety will also be one of the main themes of the annual "Take Back the Night" week in April--five days of workshops and discussions about violence against women sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). A "Take Back the River" five-kilometer run will kick off the week, which will feature workshops geared toward improving feelings of security on campus. All of these events will hopefully continue to bring issues of safety to the attention of the administration...