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...think of Arbus as so quintessentially modern that it's a shock to remember that she was a child of the flapper age and the Depression. She was born Diane (she pronounced it Dee-ann) Nemerov in New York City in 1923. Her father was the director of Russek's, a Manhattan fur and fashion emporium that had been founded by her mother's family and made them rich. Arbus, her younger sister Renee and her older brother Howard--later a U.S. poet laureate--grew up on Park Avenue. She spoke once of realizing the existence of another world...
...This committee is very important because alums can speak out without being censored," said Stephanie B. Russek '98, the student liaison between the committee and the Radcliffe Union of Students...
Stephanie B. Russek '98, a resident of Adams House, spoke about fear. "I am tired of being scared," she said...
...Russek accuses Dean Lewis of disrespecting and disregarding the entire student body, of insulting the Harvard undergraduate woman who was attacked recently, of encouraging sexism at Harvard, of having weak and crude character and ethics and of being ineffective and incompetent...
This sort of diatribe is unacceptable. Ms. Russek's is not Dean Lewis's employer, as she tries to let on ("Without us at Harvard, you would be unemployed."). She is a sophomore who is dishonest and unfair in her arguments, and who has publicly insulted a dean. She should write an apology to Dean Lewis and try to work on her writing, her manners and her humility. --Julian Allen...