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...article last month in Fifteen Minutes, entitled "Don't Look--Harvard is Watching" described the student privacy issues raised by the university's technological infrastructure. Whether our illustrious deans are privy to our personal lives, I agree, is an important subject to broach. However, whether The Crimson will broadcast that same information to the public at large seems a scarier possibility...
This period is the subject of Roger Rosenblatt's insightful new book, Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969. Although he is currently a contributing editor of Time and The New Republic and the author of such books as Children of War, Rosenblatt in 1969 was firmly imbedded within Harvard academia. Having recently received his PhD in English from Harvard, he was the newly minted Head Tutor of Dunster House, a Briggs-Copeland Instructor, and the director of the freshman writing program. Popular among students and well-regarded by his peers, Rosenblatt gained the reputation...
What makes Coming Apart so impressive is that while Rosenblatt certainly presents a gripping account of the takeover and its aftermath, he succeeds in doing more than just that. He addresses one subject that a less acute observer might miss completely: namely, the possibility that the riots might have been fueled at least partially by Harvard's tendency to treat its students as the so-called future leaders of the world: "One of the reasons that very few people who had gone to Harvard ever felt any emotional loyalty toward it is that, by design, one's loyalties were supposed...
...worthwhile trade-off for the audience's attention. It also suffers from the fact that several key performers seem to have a hard time remaining engaged and focused throughout the play's duration. But the atmospheric effects are intriguing, the lyricism and symbolism of the text moving and the subject matter utterly fascinating. Its attractions make Crystal Boys worth seeing, especially if the viewer has an interest in exploring a world that seems both familiar and previously unimagined. But for those more patient with prose than drama, perhaps the best way to catch the text's lyrical beauty would...
DIED. DOROTHY NORMAN, 92, Renaissance-woman photographer, writer and liberal activist who had a relationship with Alfred Stieglitz and was the subject of many of his photos; in East Hampton, New York. Among her many works: a Stieglitz biography and a book on India's Jawaharlal Nehru...