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Nearly 80 years later, Fitzgerald's words speak even more truly to my generation than they did to his: We are children cradled to the sound of a crooning Bob Dylan and formed in the materialistic '80s and sober '90s. We have romantic conceptions of the true meaning of student...
Of his years in Cambridge, Kristol remembers having a "good time, being a conservative and arguing with everyone." However, Kristol's political beliefs were not a deterrent to his romantic life, as he met wife-to-be, Susan C. Scheinberg '75, on campus.
...Victorian heroine who pitched away her bourgeois life for a star-crossed affair with the man of her dreams. She is a deeply troubled woman caught between the pressures of a failed marriage and financial bankruptcy. And her lover is no man, but a child. We should not romanticize adults who use children as outlets for frustrations and needs. Whether the perpetrator is an attractive woman or a menacing 300-lb. biker, whether the victim is male or female, statutory rape is a serious crime with devastating consequences for our children. ALLAN J. LICHTMAN Washington
Morrow's suggestion that the sexual assault of a young boy by his teacher is "an aberrance with something almost sweet about it" disgusted me. As a counselor working with abusive men, I know that if the genders in the Letourneau case were reversed, we would not be having this...
Fusion and "smooth" jazz certainly haven't burnished strings' reputation. But with the music's more ambitious players looking for ways to broaden jazz's sonic palette after a decade dominated by neotraditionalism, strings are back (the hipster vogue for lounge music probably hasn't hurt). The boomlet began with...