Word: theda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardest thing when you're a senior professor is to get a little time to write," said Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol...
Harvard Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol told a small group yesterday that the political left should assume a more intellectual role in American politics...
...which are mounted 65 screens, each strobing scenes of Bonnie and Clyde or Abbott and Costello or any of a hundred other images. AMMI's apex is Tut's Fever, an Egyptian-style movie palace conceived by Artists Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong. Grooms' impish sculptures staff the theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk...
...lips. Elsewhere, actors stroll about in character to fill in the historical blanks. In a room labeled "Cinema Goes to War," for example, "soldiers" roll about in trenches. Nearby is a majestic staircase canopied by MOMI's own high-camp Erecthyon: six sculpted muses of the silent cinema (Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish and Rudolph Valentino) serving as columns in a temple of the gods...
Professor of Sociology Theda R. Skocpol--who was initially denied tenure but was reinstated after she and her lawyer, Gertner, went through Harvard's internal grievance procedures--said "there are no holds barred" when a tenure discrimination case comes to court. She said that in a trial setting, the University will use all of its resourses to win the case...