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Goff founded the Black Arts Counsel last May,an effort to set up a variety of black groups withfunding and programming offered by the University,particularly the Office for the Arts...
...Wall is hundreds of years old too; or over a hundred at least," Atwood writes. "Now the gates have sentries and there are ugly new floodlights mounted on metal posts above it, and barbed wire along the bottom and broken glass set in concrete along...
...then there's the novel's climactic moment, set inside an eerily familiar Harvard Yard. Offred and her fellow handmaids witness a public execution in what appears to be Tercentenary Theatre. It is the only time Offred enters the Yard, and she is ironically summoned there by the same bell that reminds today's students of the end of each class...
...other interviews, Atwood has explained that she chose to set The Handmaid's Maid at Harvard because of its connection to early Puritan America. Harvard was originally founded to train Puritan ministers...
Harvard officials may well find that theirgrandiose vision cannot be realized, at least tothe extent they now imagine. The University'sdecentralized set-up--in which the president andothers charged with overseeing the wholeUniversity have minimal power to makecomprehensive change--will make it difficult toput many of the planned innovations into place...