Word: seconded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voices of three African-American writers, ultimately achieves that dream with the publication of Angela's Ashes. But the undercurrents of anger and resentment that reverberate through the book show us the raw underbelly of that dream: the humiliation, the loneliness, the despair and the jealousy. McCourt's second novel does not exist as an extension of his first book, devoid of any meaning. Rather, it shows us that the American dream--romantic though it may be--is still very much what his brother Alphie calls a "tormenting dream...
Late in the second act of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, when Hanna Stotland (Harvard Law School) as Beatrice proclaims (more to the audience than to the other actors on stage), "I hate the world... I hate the world...", the audience might reply that this point is already abundantly clear...
...Second, the mainstream University culture stigmatizes racist, homophobic and sexist discrimination or behavior. Thank goodness for that or else many of us would not be here. A hundred years ago, Harvard did not treat the "other" so kindly. Some former Harvard presidents would turn over in their graves if they saw who eats in the Faculty Club these days...
...Through Nov. 14: Second Year MFA Candidates Exhibition...
...socialite, Isabella Stuart Gardner. Thanks to lax conservation regulations and import laws, Gardner was able to amass a rather impressive, if jumbled, collection of paintings, decorative arts, and artifacts from around the world. Only here can one find opulent Byzantine windows (taken from actual Venetian palazzos), Boticelli paintings, and second century Roman bathhouse mosaics all melded into a unified whole. Gardner stipulated in her will that the collection remain exactly as it was originally curated; however, there are occasional rotating exhibitions of contemporary artwork. Currently on display: "Threads of Dissent" The museum also offers concerts on Saturdays and Sundays...