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...while the class may allow students to indulge in their puppy love, it also features an eclectic reading list, with assignments ranging from investigative pieces such as “Pill-Popping Pets,” to quirky epics such as Virginia’s Woolf??s “Flush, a Biography.” Although students might reasonably assume that their pets would want to attend lecture, the dogs on campus may not all agree. “We have one active service dog attending and he fell asleep during class, so I think it?...
...modern America as a societal landscape of spoiled heritage and unrealized potential, populated by Americans who are as ignorant and poorly educated about science as religion. Jacoby condemns unsparingly—objects of her criticism include Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Katie Couric, and Virginia Woolf??but pins the greater part of blame for society’s anti-intellectualism on religious fundamentalism, media packaging, pseudoscience, and exploitative political pandering. The book’s argument is intriguing and, given this year’s presidential race, especially well-timed. The focus...
...told within the framework of three famous women’s literary works: Christine de Pizan’s “Book of the City of Ladies,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Eighty Years and More,” and Virginia Woolf??s “A Room of One’s Own” serve as primary examples of literature that have brought previously overlooked types women to the forefront. What makes Ulrich’s book insightful as well as worthwhile are the details she provides. Extensive...
...have to do with reading against the grain.A PRESENT CONSTRUCTIONWhile Ulrich’s book encompasses everyone from Amazons to abolitionists, it returns again and again to the texts of three prominent writers in women’s history—Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Virginia Woolf??to drive home her view that history is a dialogue between present and past.“As I like to tell my students, history is not the moldy old facts. We create history out of the sources that survive from the past,” she said...
...Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?? made its debut in 1962, but the script’s mix of the complex and the comprehensible fits it into any stage at any time, provided there are capable people at the helm. The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) production of the play is proof...