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...Theda Skocpol, lecturer on Sociology and co-author of the junior faculty letter, said yesterday she had not been informed of what went on at the senior faculty meeting, but she said the requests are "natural" for any academic department so there was no reason why they would not have been accepted...
...Theda Skocpol, now an instructor in Sociology and one of only two radicals at Harvard with a contract to stay for at least a time, said last week that Harvard "is where some of the most powerful academics are, with the most connections to corporate and government ruling circles; Harvard will be among the last, not the first, to change." Still, last year the Sociology Department hired two radical instructors, Skocpol and Rosemary Taylor, both of whom will receive five-year contracts as assistant professors when they complete their theses later this year...
...What we need most now is a self-directed way to overcome the fragmentation of our way of life," Theda R. Skocpol, instructor in Sociology, said last night at the meeting...
...serpents are gilded with Theda Bara eye makeup and cheap-glam feather boas, but their style is belly dance rather than hippity-hop Charleston. The set, too, is twenties and thirties: the glitter of aluminum foil stars and moons is like the old movie palaces with their ugly statues, fancy organs, and ceilings domed in twinkling lights to look like the midnight sky. The effect is hokey but not distracting--it's just instant dreamland...
...also on other colorful Offenbach works. But its choreographic steps and gestures are trite, even humdrum at points, and devoid of the kind of grand line that grand ballet at its best demands. (Ah, those outstretched arms signaling the courtesan's entrance-as in a silent film starring Theda Bara...