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Though the '90s are often presented as a more caring decade than, say, the '80s, Americans are apparently giving less of their time and money to charitable causes. Independent Sector, a coalition of volunteer groups, reported that 3.4% fewer Americans volunteered last year than in 1991; during the same period, the average annual donation among the 73% of households that give slipped...
Alumnae from the '80s are coming back, demanding that we pay them lots of attention. They promote their books in lectures at the Institute of Politics and at intimate heart-to-hearts in the Adams House Upper Common Room. Even worse, they suggest that we buy their books, now on window display at Harvard Book Store. Katie Roiphe and Elizabeth Wurtzel have both left their dubious high-heeled footprints around campus this fall, but neither PYT has carried away much of a following with her. (Exception: Some young women feel validated by a Roiphe or a Wurtzel, insisting that these...
...script's '80s references, to Ricky Schroeder and the Coreys--Haim and Feldman--come out wrong; the laughs these kinds of jokes generate arise from the audience's sense of recognition rather than from real effort on the writer's part to be funny...
Almost two decades later, black writers and artists, musicians, dancers and actors find themselves in an era of creativity unrivaled in American history. The current efflorescence may have begun with the literature and criticism by black women published in the early '80s, especially the works of Ntozake Shange, Michele Wallace, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. These women, and those who came later, were able to reach both the traditional large readership, which is middle class, white and female, and a new black female audience that had been largely untapped and unaddressed...
...Staters hold Romney's business experience in high regard: 52% believe it to be appropriate preparation for a job in the Senate, compared with just 39% three months ago. The son of former Michigan Governor and 1968 presidential candidate George Romney, young Romney made his millions during the '80s as a venture capitalist in Boston. He argues that while his businesses have helped create 10,000 jobs, Kennedy's activities only funnel in federal grants: that is, funds derived from taxes. "Ted has never had a job in 32 years," Romney charges. "He has no idea how to create jobs...