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...Julia Child gave her collection of books in 1990, it was still a feminist library with a fairly feminist staff. Believe me, I’m a card-carrying feminist, but I wanted to prove to myself that food and gender go together.” Despite the sub rosa discontent that pervaded the library in the early years of the collection, Haber persisted. In 2005, the Food Issue of The New Yorker credited Haber as having “invented the history of women and food,” and in 2007, when Drew G. Faust, then the Dean...
...learned the touchstones of the Civil Rights struggle throughout middle school and high school history classes: the steadfastness of Rosa Parks, the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the many indignities that spurred non-violent protests throughout the South. But can anyone remember what was happening in the North at the same time? University of Pennsylvania professor Thomas J. Sugrue attempts to remedy this gap in our historical memory with his new book, “Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.”Sugrue’s book is something...
...Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. Odetta's stage presence was regal enough: planted onstage like an oak tree no one would dare cut down, wearing a guitar high on her chest, she could envelop Carnegie Hall with her powerful contralto as other vocalists might fill a phone booth. This was not some pruny European monarch but a stout, imperious queen of African-American music. She used that amazing instrument to bear witness to the pain and perseverance of her ancestors. Some folks sing songs. Odetta...
...lived an interesting life. At 69, Eggleston has been married to his wife Rosa for 44 years and raised three children. But his definition of wedlock has been elastic enough to permit numerous girlfriends and affairs. He has been known to shoot indoors--guns, not just pictures. There have been various run-ins with the law. And over the years, he's been the best of friends with Jim Beam and Jack Daniel's. He's also been one of the most original artists of your lifetime...
...ambitious, interesting, and accessible showcase of work—the showcase to which “indie” perhaps owes its existence—My Bloody Valentine’s “Isn’t Anything,” Pixies’ “Surfer Rosa,” Fugazi’s “13 Songs,” and Sonic Youth’s “Daydream Nation.” But while those albums all self-consciously operated around or even subverted the tropes and conventions of “pop?...