Word: shading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restricting use of the Harvard name to identify certain projects or organizations. It's quite a shame that these stipulations don't apply to literature as well. Perhaps this would have encouraged author Pamela Thomas-Graham '85 to consider making some serious revisions to her first novel, A Darker Shade of Crimson. This often misrepresentative book all but circumvents necessary discussion of important racial issues on campus, and it paints high-ranking university officials as one-dimensional puppets at best. Overburdened with persistent and less-than-subtle reminders of Harvard's prominent place in upperclass social circles, A Darker Shade...
...coincidences: both Thomas-Graham and Nikki Chase hail from Detroit; both exhibited marked success in economics-related fields, and both are affiliated with Harvard. Self-aggrandizement? Possibly. A creative outlet? If that's what you want to call it, fine. But steer clear of the assessment that A Darker Shade of Crimson accurately exposes the upper echelons of Harvard society. Allow the book to entertain for you what fantasies it will, but don't doubt for a moment that, in her conception of academic life, the author is entertaining a few fantasies of her own as well...
From the perspective of international sanction, the Israeli expansion into Palestinian land is a violation of U.N. resolutions. In light of the international community's repeated protests, Palestinian grievances take on a new shade. Their loss of territory is not simply a national gripe, but a transgression against prior agreements and the sanction of the world at large...
...this winter of scandal as a simple, sanctified sister of mercy. But she is also a puzzle, with a resume and reflexes that speak to lessons learned in 40 years of bureaucratic trench warfare. Is she too loyal ever to betray the President? Is she too honest ever to shade the truth? Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton are each hoping that they know which side she will come down on--and the two sides couldn't be farther apart...
...same profile fits their creators. Pamela Thomas-Graham, 33, a three-degree Harvard alumnus (B.A., J.D., M.B.A.), has taken a break from her career as a management consultant to write A Darker Shade of Crimson (Simon & Schuster; 286 pages; $23), a mystery set at her alma mater. Similarly, Margaret Cuthbert, 34, a Stanford graduate and ob-gyn, has mined her experiences for a medical whodunit, The Silent Cradle (Pocket Books; 353 pages...