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...keep the venues functioning after the departure of a particularly instrumental tutor or the graduation of a student organizer.When David J. Tischfield ’09 took over the Quincy House pottery studio, the facility hadn’t been used in several semesters.“An older woman ran the studio for years up until around four years ago when she had kids and gave up the responsibility,” he says. “It just sat there and collected dust until last spring when I started teaching classes there again.”Though...
...coitus. “We’re all alike when it comes to sex,” director Wesman says. Much of the show’s humor is derived from the juxtaposition of the academic and the sexual. In one of the first episodes, Colleen, a woman who is obsessed with success but is also wondrously lazy, and Dunston, a suave private school squash player, must assess the theory of countervalence of the auditory and the physical in intimate experiences. (In simple terms, the characters must detail their experiences with dirty talk during sex.) And as typical Harvard...
...It’s not that I don’t like J. K. Rowling. In fact, we’ve never been introduced. I am, however, deeply disturbed to be receiving my post-Harvard marching orders from her. This is, after all, a woman who is remarkable for her ability to dupe children into thinking that all they need to face their demons are grit, courage, and a handful of dead relatives. At least Dan Brown managed to get people interested in some important works of art and J. R. R. Tolkien gave short people a reason to live...
...This year, the richest woman in Britain joins an exclusive club, alongside luminaries like Prof. John Huston Finley, the Harvard classicist who delivered the 1982 speech, and publisher Louis B. Martin, the 1970 speaker. Neither has a Wikipedia entry dedicated to him, but at least they weren’t children’s book authors...
...happened to Oprah, who changed the world by inventing a book club completely free of interpersonal contact? Or Hillary Clinton, who surely deserves to somehow follow in her husband’s footsteps this year? The list goes on, full of individuals who are much more worthy than a woman who thinks it’s okay to write 700-page kiddie...