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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...days preceding the inaugural production of the Athena Theater Company, comments like “Gamma whatsit?” or more commonly, “Isn’t that a feminist play or something?” circulated among the student body. It is unfortunate that The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon-Marigolds encountered such a reception, for although the production was not the spectacular debut that one might hope for from a new group, it demonstrated the group’s potential and hinted at a bright future...

Author: By Rebecca Cantu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athena’s Debut Produces Positive Effects | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...thought I'd try to write a book about America these days, a work of definitive analysis, you know? Like the big thinkers. Come up with an all-encompassing theory about the end of history, or the Whatsit Generation, or better yet, be Tocqueville--so that everyone in the Hamptons or on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket this summer would nod in somber yet enthusiastic agreement that, yep, this is America, all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anybody Recognize This Place? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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