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This culinary misconception, a paradox widely known but rarely admitted in polite conversation, is a carbon copy of the European counterpart. In the US we adore fresh Italian pasta and rich French desserts to no end, while Europeans, especially the youth, flock to crowded McDonald's for the phony Le Big Mac and outrageously overpriced American soft drinks. As far as we are concerned, River folk should indulge their xenophobia at the over-commercialized Friday's Americana Bar and leave us to enjoy traditional European pub life at Christopher's and Cambridge Common...
Back in the halcyon days of our youth, many of us used to operate lemonade stands on summer afternoons. We'd buy some Country-Time mix, drag a card table out into the front yard and set up shop. On a good day, we'd pull in a couple dollars in pocket change from kind pedestrians passing by. We'd put that cash in the bank and save it for the proverbial rainy...
...sure that many here at Harvard are intimately familiar with the cruelty of youth. I doubt that too many Math 55 prodigies look back fondly on middle school dances. Yet, we've all survived any travails we may have encountered and hopefully we've emerged stronger people as a result...
...womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde, beautiful symbol of female youth and fertility. Perhaps if Annie Taylor fell over the falls 40 years earlier her story would have been different. Perhaps then we would not remember young and handsome Bobby Leach, the famous "first man to go over the falls in a barrel" (five year after Annie's forgotten leap). Perhaps...
Okay, so it's not James Dean; it's a good way to spend a Thursday afternoon regardless. Davis Center Associate and Tufts Associate Professor of Russian Gregory Carleton presents the literary seminar, "Rebels with Too Much Cause: Representing Youth in the Late 1920s." Bergson/Ulam Room, Coolidge Hall 215, Davis Center, 1737 Cambridge St. 495-4037. 4 to 6 p.m. FREE...