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Long a favorite candidate of the "WASP ghetto" running out along Brattle St., reform incumbent Barbara Ackermann knows her constituency well...
Harvard, of course, has been for a century one of those national institutions burdened with that perplexing obligation, that multifaceted task of fashioning a functional distance between its cultural (WASP) origins, on the one hand, and its national power, on the other. All things given, as an institution's national power increases its demand for cultural specificity decreases. No doubt this dynamic of Americanization or American institutional democratization--if I can call it such--is never perfect at any given point in time: it is always an approximation of a longrun norm or ideal, exhibiting much cultural...
...that's all well and good, as long as no one tries to paint an unjustifiable, rosy picture of what actually went on in 1776. The Revolution might have been predominantly male and WASP, but that's no reason why the Bicentennial should...
...grew up in Virginia, worked hard at school and was considered a "real prig." Says she: "High schools are real hip now, but there was no counterculture in Woodbridge, Va. in 1963. You were either a homecoming queen or a real weirdo. I was a 16-year-old Wasp wanting to quit school and become Woody Guthrie." She entered the University of North Carolina in 1965 on a dramatic scholarship. "It was a time when the golden girls got married to med students," she recalls. More fearful of regimentation than impelled by ambition, she began singing in local bars...
...instead analyzes the proceedings as "an ancient scenario" played out in the courtroom by Defendant Abbie Hoffman, an uncompromisingly "coarse Yid" if ever there was one, and Trial Judge Julius Hoffman, archetype of the assimilating Jew striving for Gentile "refinement." When Abbie labels Julius a "front man for the Wasp power elite," he bluntly expresses the "sociocultural wounds" that, Cuddihy says, Marx and Freud expressed only indirectly. But when Cuddihy poaches upon the field of literary criticism, his judgments cloud his vision. He arrogantly dismisses Novelist Bernard Malamud as "a teller of Christian tales who 'passes...