Word: sissela
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...surprisingly, the ones that involve Harvard in-jokes. "Dean Epps' Love Song" by Philip LaZebnik, a mishmash of double talk that praises love as a viable alternative, somehow sounds funnier than it really is, but "Caesar's Wife" by Peter Homans and Bill Johnsen, which has a whining Sissela Bok complaining about all those cocktail parties and privately longing to be married to "a Brutus," is right on the mark. "Tarts of the Arts"--by Paul Rosenberg and Ted Trimble--takes its cue from a familiar situation--a jaded senior, unable to find inspiration in his term paper, thinks back...
...manner is more formal than is usual," for people in Harvard circles, the wife of a Harvard administrator says. "Perhaps it is because of her European upbringing." Sissela, too, believes her foreign background explains part of why she does not act like everyone else...
...foreign feelings are most strongly apparent in her failure to adopt the American woman's increasing awareness of sexism, Sissela does not consider Harvard a male dominated environment; nor does she feel that being a women here has led to any special problems. "That may be something that I never really worried too much about. But that may also be because I did grow up in another country and it never occurred to me to worry about whether I was a woman or a man. That was really not something and it never occurred to me to worry about whether...
...Sissela questions herself at times when many women would quickly seize the chance to charge sexism. In a situation where she feels her opinion is not being taken seriously, she explains with a small laugh, "The fact that I am a woman would not occur to me as the first possibility. I'd be much more worried had I done my homework, had I really prepared for this, am I being silly? But am I a woman? That would not come in as a very early question...
...Sissela does not feel at home in Europe, either. She left Sweden when she was twelve, and when she returns now it is not to her homeland. She loves to go back there and makes the trip about every three years. It's nostalgic then, journeying back to the land of her tomboy youth, where they didn't let the girls play soccer, as her daughters do here; where she avoided dance classes and thrilled in climbing trees. "I love to hear the people speaking my language. It's nice to go into a bookstore and see that...