Word: wellesley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Zimmerman, who teaches a course on "Gender and Popular Culture in Japan" for Wellesley college's Japanese department, sees shojo's appeal from a more distanced perspective. "Shojo manga are popular because they tap into the social obstacles and challenges that girls face: feeling excluded by cliques, having crushes on boys, and often wrestling with issues of their own sexuality," she wrote me in an email from Japan. She continued, "But they are also popular because they present a glossy image of a different kind of existence where everyone dresses up fashionably and looks cute...
Robert A. Paarlberg, a visiting professor of government from Wellesley College, entered Government 1790, “American Foreign Policy” only to find a mob scene yesterday afternoon...
Probably the most controversial issue in the chemistry of sexuality is the role of pheromones. In 1971 the University of Chicago's McClintock, then a Wellesley undergraduate, proved scientifically what women in dorms had known for decades: menstrual periods become synchronized when women live together. It's probably because of pheromones, she said--olfactory chemicals that we can detect even though we're not aware of them. In 1998, she did experiments that proved this hypothesis, but, unlike animal pheromones, no human versions have been isolated...
...Wellesley Dyke Ball: All’s Wellesley That Eats Wellesley...
...Charlie) Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but became an entrepreneur instead. Mei-ling attended high school in Macon, Ga. She eventually returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that she had to be re-educated in her native tongue by a tutor ("The only thing Oriental about me," she reportedly said, "is my face"). She was in her mid-20s and the flower of Shanghai's intellectual community...