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Harriet Jacobs: A Life (Basic Civitas Books; 394 pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it's a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery. When Jacobs was an adolescent, her master made sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary...
...slaves were literate, as a child she had served a sympathetic woman who had tutored her. Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl during hours snatched from her duties as a domestic. It became a success on both sides of the Atlantic, and then, according to Yellin, whose book continues where Jacobs' ends, the ex-slave's work really began. Jacobs worked with black refugees from the Civil War and founded a school for poor black children. She never married and was never financially comfortable. In 1885, when she was in her 70s, she heard that...
Even during its brief run of glory, the club let a few wrap aficionados down. Chloe L. Yellin ’07 attended just one meeting—in Winthrop’s dining hall. “I never really understood why we went to Winthrop house to eat,” Yellin says. However, the club did provide her with the opportunity to reincorporate wrap consumption into her balanced diet. “I have some experience with wraps since I worked in a wrap restaurant two summers ago,” she says...
...intrepid Harvard Early Music Society had to go digging in the bowels of Widener before they could produce the play. Somehow, while searching Hollis, Musical and Orchestral Restorer Victor Fell Yellin ’49 discovered that one keyboard score of the show had survived there all this time. He went on to restore the operetta for this production, and did a winning job. Moreover, the work was remarkably well executed by Music Director Marisa W. Green ’04, who rose above the well-known difficulties of working with a hastily assembled orchestra...
...group that makes in the top 1% in income, and I'm not sure we need that kind of protection," argues Fred Campbell, a San Antonio, Texas, internist. Even more troubling is the image of doctors jeopardizing their patients by going on strike. On those grounds, Albert Yellin, a Los Angeles vascular surgeon, opposed the unionization last month of 800 Los Angeles County physicians. "Using our patients as hostages to gain things within our own self-interest is anathema to our whole mission," he says...