Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Yesterday morning you joined a final club. And since I wasn't entirely straightforward with you when we talked Sunday night, I want to tell you now how I feel. This is not a private letter, and I apologize. But your decision is not a private one, and so I can't really respond to it that...
...know I don't approve of final clubs. You know I think they only widen the gaps at Harvard and in our society between men and women, between haves and have-nots. You know that what is often encouraged in private, solely male spaces would not be acceptable between us as friends. You know how women can be treated and talked about in such a setting. You know what it means to have a party, a social scene, where a privileged few institutionalize their "right" to marginalize and control the participation of others. You know how fortunate...
...When you finally approached me only hours before accepting this membership, you had already attended all the punching events. You said you had a few drinks, schmoozed a little, smoked a stogie or two. Then you wanted me to respond. You wanted me to set up some straw-man arguments about why final clubs are problematic and you wanted to knock them down. Who was I to stop...
...past, the final clubs have affected my life little; now I have to acknowledge their place and their impact on my position in the Harvard community. I have to acknowledge their impact on our friendship. Final clubs do not exist in a vacuum. When you go there, you leave our communal space for a private space all too often unaccountable to the social values and standards upheld by an open and diverse community...
...bruising portrait of the late CBS founder. Her book charts the trajectory of Paley's extraordinary career, from his purchase of a small group of radio stations in 1928 through his nurturing of CBS to become America's pre-eminent broadcast organization to his long, long goodbye and final, reluctant embracing of new owner Laurence Tisch. But in stark contrast to the encomiums written and uttered after his death last month, Smith's biography cuts a broadcast titan down to 21-in. size. Maybe smaller...