Word: walkerism
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...Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Cynthia Johnson, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Cynthia Johnson, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...role, however, of a generation of women struggling to define feminism in a society with many options available to them. No wonder Wellesley students only narrowly chose the novelist Alice Walker (who declined the invitation) over Barbara Bush when electing a graduation speaker. Alice Walker represents the intellect who is recognized for her products on the written page; Barbara Bush is the matriarch who is recognized by her volunteerism and commitment to family. Something in both Walker and Bush appeals to young women...
...where graduates aspire to be President, not a President's wife; to run the country, not the house; and where previous speakers have included Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem and Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich. Barbara Bush wasn't Wellesley's first choice this year; that honor went to Alice Walker, black author, single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium may feel too diminishing, like getting on Nightline and then having to wave...
...rebel; one lewd strand of hair snakes down to his cheek. He's an orphan; his parents, the notorious Alphabet Bomber (Airport, Barber shop, Car wash, Drug store . . .) and spouse, were electrocuted together long before he turned teen. He's Wade Walker, and when the world that has branded him a juvenile delinquent weighs too heavily on his high school hellcat soul, his eye moistens with a single salty tear. So the kids call him Cry-Baby. Says Wade defiantly: "That's Mr. Baby...