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The Ga賞apagos Islands and Ecuador. March 23
Hidden Theasures of Ita案y′s Po River. J
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to 3L ]998. A four‑day cruise of the islands of the
to J諦y 7, I998. A cruise from Venice to FIorence
Galapagos with plenty of views of rare animal and
With daily excursions to view artistic masterpleCeS.
Plant species, fo11owed by tours in Ecuador. Lec露〃er:
BioIogy Professor Thomas Kunz, director of the Center
The trip ends with three nights at FIorence
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for EcoIogy and Conservation BioIogy.
A量pine Discoveries: Summer Wh獲ks
The Pacific Northwest. Mtzy 22 fo 3O,
in the Swiss AIps. Jndy J9 fo 30,
1998. A voyage on the newly built
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Stem‑Wheeler Qz/een Ofthe V¥なt up
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COmbining historic charm with
Moritz. Lecturer: Earth Sciences
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Sciences Assistant Professor
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Harrogate: An English
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elegant hotel in Harrogate, in
Beijing, the ancient city of Xian,
lbrkshire, daily excursions to
and historic Shanghai, aS Well as a
gardens, muSeumS, and great
architectural sites. Lecturer:
four‑day cruise on the lねngtze River
to see the famous Three Gorges.
History Professor Fred Leventhal.
Lectz/rer: International Relations
Professor Joe Fewsmith.
The Villages and Vineyards of
Bordeaux. Sq舵mber 22 to October 3, Z998.
Baltic Sea Countries Cruise. Jrine 5 fo ]8, Z998.
Three days in Paris and a seven‑day cruise of
Views of the rich cultures in the historic capitals
the tranquil Gironde and Dordogne rivers to
and port cities of eight Baltic states. Lecturer:
the heart of Bordeaux. Lec露/7t,γ: History
Political Science Professor VI7alter Clemens.
Professor William Keylor.
Expedition to Antarctica. JamJa事γ I5 fo 28, ]999. Summer cruise
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With frequent landings in Antarctica.
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The video described in the story ofCOM
s
golden amiversary (̀̀About the Univer‑
s powerful excoriation ofhis own.
Sam and I were members ofthe same
dan. Respectable Protestant Anglo‑Irish
Thanks for publishing so honorable an
muddley middle dass. Sam
enCOmlum.
mama when young both fell in love with
s papa and my
Sity," Fall 1997) might have induded a bit
Peter Davison
Of history that predates COM
s beginnmgS
]吻e A脇ntic Moク初砂
met at a temis club. They were not allowed
m referring to the joumalism
Bo∫才Om,脇鋤Ch縮写的
to marry. Sam
in 1947. I
members ofthe Catholic religion. They all
s father and my mo血er were
hopelessly scarred by this. They discussed it
department血at was housed in血e College
OfBusiness Administration at 525 Boylston
together often in my hearing. Over the
Om, Proタグ∫t
Street and then later on Commonwealth
years the Beckett boys and the MammgS,
Avenue. I was in the last fi.eshman dass in
Having JuSt finished Proust
the department headed by the late Max
Gomor脇e, it was with great pleasure that I
Grossman作MG26 GSM衿のSED〕3I).
read Roger Shattuck
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my family, met, talked, Played.
When I was happily entangled with the
s review of H腸
Dublin Theatre, I struck up a friendship
ナames D. Lyman (級はG宅2)
Pro:u∫t Cのn C局のク物e靴ur L締(Summer
with Sam B. He and I attended sessions at
Km∫i物的狗脇りんnd
1997)… ・ I think ofmyselfas an enlight‑
the Dublin Drama League, Which for some
ened devotee
上わeタic Licm,膨
I enJOyed Michelle Seaton
Back Bay,
reason I can
t remember was run byW B.
one would read about Proust rather than
Yeats
reading Proust.
friends. That friendship was sustained by
Wonne LaLyre作l∃D?89)
s pleCe about
Tom Lambert and Defense Secretary
William Cohen (
and like him, find it silly血at
wife, Georgie. Sam and I were firm
liter‑gram t皿his dea血a few years ago. Mr.
Bo加考脇∬伽b幼∬妨
Lake, I
Fall 1997). I
m glad you have his letters. I let you
have血em ‑ I liked your face.
Studied torts with Tom Lambert in 195l,
Mary Mannmg
and in 1978 when I joined the Suffolk
Nbmim,ee
Universlty Law School faculty, I had
Kudos to Wendy K. Mariner for her bril‑
him as a colleague. I was
Cのmbri切ら脇∬のChu∫e妨
liant artide αFrom W励e彬tO
Colhc加r七I彩m
asked to contribute a pleCe
Etemity?
to the S御楊U徹れer∫i砂
reasoning lS PreCise, ratio‑
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nal, and to the letter and
estmg and was pleasantly surprised to丘nd
that is mentioned in the
SPlrlt Ofthe law. Concise
the excellent article on Carlton Lake. I have
(Fal1 1997). Her
I found血e fall issue of Bo脇mia very mter‑
article. I was too in awe of
and superbly documented,
been an admirer ofhis since I read his Con‑
the man to desecrate the
it is the finest articulation
f2∬ion∫ QfのLi砂のvy Archのeo嬢and found
issue with my scholarship,
Ofthe subject I have read.
SO I submitted a poem
Hello, Mr. President, Who‑
and interest in, books and documents. I men‑
instead.
ever you may be when the
tion only affinities, because my accomplish‑
that we had great a鯖nities in our love for,
next vacancy appears in the
ments in血e fomation ofmy library are very
s public
Supreme Court. What a won‑
minor when compared to his extraordinary
relations department. It
derful addition she would
success and contributions to the Ransom
deserves a little notice
make to Justices Scalia and
Cente r.
there.
Thomas !
I am sending血e Seaton
PleCe tO Suffolk
Speaking ofsurprlSeS, When I visited血e
Edward J. Bander (CAS?49 L4Wt5I)
John F. Geraci (MET76)
Universlty OfTexas a few years ago and
Bimon幼少Reγiel砂ゲL例砂Booん
CoIonel, United States Army (Ret. )
SPOke about my library at the center, I
ComorみM独脇C楊膨妨
S物e?;勅rida
asked its director, Tom Staley, about Carl‑
ton, having no idea ofhis whereabouts.
Hi〃与王わ〃
Thomas D
Evelyn
Promised Land
(
Tom said that he was working on the floor
脇i揚物♪m Hbme
s αProphet on the
Essays and Reviews,
achieved血e goal ofevery collector (
Fall 1997) does more than justice to the
Sian Fields of丁txas,
massive genius ofGeo紐ey Hill,s poetry,
though he omits pomtmg Out Hill
below us. You can imagme my Pleasure in
ve
meetmg Carlton and having an unforget‑
Pari‑
table conversation with him. Meetings like
What a collection! Mr. Lake, yOu
I
s debt to
Fal1 1997).
m gloating m my lair to think that J
that are an important part ofthe pleasures
ofli危.
COntributed to your glorious GoIconda臆
ナose Mindlin
SuCh as Dante. Might not the line ̀̀groans,
my monthly liter‑gramS, from Samuel
」蛎o P揚u10, Bm易I
murmurs, Cries
owe more than a little to
Beckett. They were sparse, those liter‑
s hoarse words ̀̀ q幼i7,i ∫0ゼ7iri印imti
grams and succinct ‑ but they acted like
Jor〆Mindlin存4ead qf劾e Me幼I Let,e COm‑
SuPertOnics. Almost as vital as the meno‑
pa勿毒タBrの易I md i∫のクeゲ劾e worl初pre‑
PauSe. They normalized me.
mier booh ′0〃ecto獄‑ Ed.
Dante
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(I確mo, Canto 3)? Hill
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The article on Carlton Lake was most inter‑
estmg. I
ve been privileged to see many of
the items in his co皿ection, and血eir quahty
reflects his exqulSlte taSte. It would be im‑
POSSible to build such a collection today, and
Ttxas is indeed fortunate to be the recIPlent
Of Carlton
s generoslty.
J. Howard Wbolmer
ReヮerちPemり′んa′nia
‥. Good artide on Carlton Lake. A great
COllector and an elegant writer. T切e At揚紡ic
bene丘ted by his contributions.
Phoebe‑Lou Adams
了切e Atlm房c胸n幼少
BoJ妨ち脇脇Ch複勝妨
I am indebted to you for血e article on Carl‑
ton Lake. I have reread his Co柚ion∫ qfの
Liieraり′ Archaeol賜わand am reminded that
Lake has lived血e life that serves as a para‑
digm for me. His interests (especially the
French Symbolists and art) resonate wi血my
own. I dream. He doのし
Edna Keyes
乃p脇の物故ine
AK4 A.S.A.
IfAbigail Adams were a woman of the
nineties, She might have arranged her name
as Abigail Adams Smith, Or Perhaps鵜
Abigai十Smith‑Adams. However, being a
WOman bom in the 1700s, Chances are that
She would have preferred to have her name
mentioned as Abigail Smith Adams, rather
than the way m Which it is prmted in the
CaPtion above the picture (
Quotes,
Notes and
Fal1 1997).
Mary FoIsom ( SEDt54)
Kmククeb勿nh, Mのine
Boj70niのwelcomes readers
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Port C協arlot疹助orida
圏 聞
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面 瀧 盛
Daniel Drummond
聞 圏
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lector丘fty years ago.
醐認観
beyond what could be imagined when my
late wife and I first met him as a young col‑
畷蛾
Certainly ascended to stardom in his field, far
回∴
I much enjoyed your fau issue・ Carl Lake has
二二∵∴∵∴∴∴∵上
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reactions and en‑
COurageS eXPreSSions of opinion ‑ PrO and
COn. Letters should be briefand may be
edited for purposes ofspace or clarity. Cor‑
respondence sho山d indude writer
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and address. Whte to BのJo荻の, 10 LenOX St.,
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PERFORMING ARTS
ExHIBITIONS
看I=acuity Concert ‑ American Program, Ji料
30・ Bayla Keyes,
ON CAMPUS
iolin; Lois Shapiro, Pimo
鵜The Shaughraun, Jirn. 9二Fbb. 8. Dion Bouci‑
(guest artist); Michelle LaCourse,扉ola.
Cault, ow物0りLarry Carpenter, dire初w Pre‑
Amold Schoenberg:助mtの切Alfred Schnit‑
喜Marianna Pineda: A Retrospective, Ji諒J 6‑
Sented by the Seattle Repertory Theatre
tke: Sonata No. 1; Michael Daugherty:協0楊
March J. Sculpture. BU Art Gallery・ Tues.」
Company and the HuntmgtOn Theatre Com‑
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mbi考and Feruccio Busoni: Second Sonata,
Op. 36a. Tsai Performance Center. 8 p.m.
Fri・ 10 a.m・‑5 p.m・, Sat, Sun. l‑5 p.m.
Pany, in residence at Boston University. Prices
園丁hird Annual Membersたxhibition, 」FGb. I3‑
Vary. BU Theatre.
喜Opera lnstitute Mid"Winter l:ringe l:estivalタ
Mのrch 6. Openmg reCePtlOn, Feb. I2, 6‑8
喜Eal.1y Music Series, J宏縮J3. Shalev Ad葛El,
]宏n・ 31・ Clori, r?rJi, e Fik
P.m・ Photographic Resource Center. Admis‑
hの印∫ichord; Richard Boothby,
Drew Minter, director. Tsai Performance
iola dの
O by Handel.
Sion: free for members and BU students; $3
gambの・ Tsai Performance Center. 8 p.m.
nonmembers; $2 seniors and students. Free
喜Guest Artist Concert, Jm. I6. Claude
admission Thu・ after 5 p.m. Tues.‑Sun. 12‑5
LaBelle, Pim0. Boston University Concert
2・ Boston University Concert Hall・ 8 p・m・
P・m・, Thu・ 12‑8 p.m.
Hall. 8 p.m.
漢Boston University Symphony Orchestra, Fbb.
鵜Power and Paper: Margaret Bourke‑White,
漢Schumann Series, Jirn・ 2I・ Utte楊物C楊m ;n
3・ Tsai Performance Center. 8 p.m.
Modemlty and the Documentary Mode)
7bneJ. William Hite,
喜Faou!ty Concert, Feb. 4. Maria CIodes
Mのr訪6二April J2. Photographs. BU Art
enor; David Deveau,
pia′nO; Sheila Kibbe, Pimo; Robert Merfeld,
Gallery. Tues.‑Fri. 10 a.m.‑5 p.m., Sat., Sun.
pimのBayla Keyes, Pioli勿Andr6s Diaz, Ce〃0.
Center・ 8 p.m.
SBoston University Chambe「 Orchestra, F楊
ナaguaribe, Piano; Yuri Mazurkevich,
io妨ク.
Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas. Tsai Per‑
l‑5 p.m.
Wbrks include Fantasie, Op. 17; Liederkreis,
formance Center. 8 p.m.
1Third Annual PRC Student Members Exhibi。
Op・ 39; and Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 63.
喜AしEA i○○, Fbb・ 5. S脇物qf物e C肋のrleJ. Theo‑
tion,脇rch 20二年〆il J7 Opening reception,
Preconcert lecture, John Daverio, 7 p.m. Tsai
dore Antoniou声Ond勿CtOr; Lynn Torgove)
脇卿h I夕, 6‑8 p.m. Bakalar Gallery. Photo‑
Perfomance Center・ 8 p.m.
mez2;0 ‑J岬rのnq; Ⅹak Bjerken, pimのKonstanti‑
graphic Resource Center. Admission: free for
members and BU students; $3 nonmembers;
音訓aしou Dimmòk Honors Recital,Jm. 27
nos Papadakis, pimのMichael Zaretsky, r毒o楊.
Miranda Rowe, ∫Op微nO; Patrick Gagnon,
Special guest Donald Martino will play his
$2 seniors and students. Free admission Thu.
baritonちSheila Kibbe, Pia′nO. Music ofAr‑
new pleCe for soIo clarinet, Written to cele‑
after 5 p.m. Tues.‑Sun.
brate ALEA IⅡ,s twγen‑
12‑5 p.mっThu. 12‑8
tieth anniversary sea‑
p・m・
son. Donald Martino:
喜Phy冊s Curtin: A
Birthday Cのrd (world
Life in Performance,
O物Oタグ砂. 5th
Premiere); Henry
組○○r,
Cowell: Pobphonicの;
Special Collections,
Charles Fussell: Nol′eク彼‑
Mugar Memorial Li‑
brary. Mon.‑Fri. 9
ber Lea彬J (world pre‑
miere); Alexandros
a.m.‑5 p.m.
Kalogeras: Concerto
園丁he Third Degree:
for Piano and Chamber
The Mystery Novel
Orchestra (U.S. pre‑
Through the Cen‑
miere); Dmitri Shosta‑
turies,劾ro物b脇rch
kovich: Sonata for
I5. lst floor, Mugar
Memorial Library.
Viola and Piano; and
Tison Street: Li級e
Regular library hours.
DのmeJ (world pre‑
鵜Special Agent in
miere). Tsai Perfor置
Charge: Correspon‑
dence Between Melvin
mance Center. 8 p.m.
菓Faculty Conce「t,罵b.
Purvis and丁・ Edgar
I O・ Twentieth Century
H○○ver,初0役〆M砂
Concert. Atlantic Brass
Ist floor, Mugar Mem‑
Quintet. Tsai Perft)r‑
Orial Library. Regular
mance Center. 8 p.m.
library hours.
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Cbe・ Penelope Bitzas, me2;ZO‑∫叫mnO; Maria
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Carl Chiarenza Photographs, 1984‑1997.
High Museum of Photography, Georgla
肋e A碩劫en砧Limfbr御da彬d liJ寂び
CIodes丁aguaribe, PiのnのSheila Kibbe, Piのnの
擁e郷,rmのme eワm妨.
Ethan SIoane声IarineちMichelle La Course,
Pacific Center, 30ナohn Wesley Dobbs Ave.,
扉ola′. KreiJleriのm′, Op. 16; Maria St級のrt
Atlanta, Ga. Mon.‑Sat. 10 a.m.‑5 p.m.
Lieder, Op. 1 35; and Mdrchener2;dhl物役グen,
404/733‑4437
Op. 132. Preconcert lecture,ナohn Daverio, 7
漢Sidney Hurwitz (S月4
P.m. Tsai Performance Center・ 8 p.m.
SoIo exhibition. Pepper Gallery, 38 Newbury
School for the Arts Events Line
617/353‑3349
Tsai Performance Center
5夕), Jm. 23」もb. 28.
68 5 Commonweal血Avenue, Boston
喜Boston University Wind Ensemble, Feb. 26.
St., Boston. Tues.‑Sat. 10 a.m.‑5 p.m. 617/
617/353‑8724
David J. Martins, COndncto供Boston Univer‑
236‑4497.
Boston University Concert Hall
Sity Concert Hall. 8 p.m.
漢Ben Frank Moss 1音音(S且4
School for the Arts
■Boston University Symphonic Chorus and
17 Landscapes. Pepper Gallery, 38 Newbury
Symphony Orchestra, Mゐrch I. Robert Shaw,
St., Boston. Tues.‑Sat. 10 a.m.‑5 p.m. 617/
8 5 5 Commonweal血Avenue, Boston
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HuntlngtOn Theatre Company
Mainstage and Studio 2 10
264 HuntmgtOn Avenue, Boston
617/266‑0800
C脇易cJor. Haydn:功e Creのtion. Prices vary.
236‑4497.
Tsai Performance Center. 3 p.m.
葵Susan Jaffe Tane (SED
漢Boston Universitγ Symphony OI.Chestra,
Q%Oth
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Performance Center. 8 p.m.
■Opera lnstitute Mid‑Winter Fringe I:estival,
648‑5523.
Marcb 3‑6. La 7す犀グidie de Cのr徽en by
School for the Arts
Bizet/Brook.ナoshua Major, dire初w Boston
Photographic Resource Center
64),肋ro物hJみn. J9.
he Ra′γen, Selections from Tane
Edgar Allan Poe collection. Poe Museum,
1914 East Main St., Richmond, Va. 804/
脇rch 3. Theodore Antoniou声Ondnのり7: Tsai
Boston University Art Gallery
855 Commonweal血Avenue, Boston
63),物ro御b]kn.
ALUMNI EvENTS
University Theatre Studio 210. 8 p・m・
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of the intellectuals who have contributed
Wesley (SSWt42), retired director of stu‑
to a deeper knowledge ofour two coun‑
dent persomel services at Oklchoma State
tries and ofwhat unites them and ofwhat
Universlty, reCeived the award for Out‑
OCCaSionally separates血em.
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Keylor was awarded his Ph.D. by
Columbia University in 197l and joined
Fraser (SSW
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the College ofArts and Sciences faculty
lege, reCeived血e award for Outstanding
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Building was designed by Villiam Ralph
tual history, and more recently, mtema‑
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The suit was filed on October 19,
twenty‑five years and one day after the
University first brought suit agamSt term
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mJunCtion agamSt SeVeral companies and
led to a Massachusetts law passed the fol‑
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followed.
Social VⅣbrk Vinners
The SchooI ofSocial Wbrk Alurmi As‑
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their outstanding contributions to
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you can attend via血e Intemet this season.
Suit Targets
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November l. GeoffWilkinson (SSW移5),
executive director of the Massachusetts
Senior Action Council, reCeived the
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SettS Homeopathic Hospital, the clinical
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before血e tum of血e century. The refur‑
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Cuttmg CeremOny On October 24 as the
new home ofthe SchooI of Public Health.
CoMMON WEA=Ⅱ
WoMEN
s MovEMENT
COme tO Nor血em Ireland in my lifetime,
terms with a new selfgovemmg body of
and I am pleased to say that recent devel‑
its own. Other indispensable contribu‑
OPmentS there have been ofhistoric pro‑
tors to the search for peace, She adds, are
says Shamon, director ofthe
President Clinton, Whose personal com‑
Intemational Visitors Program at Boston
mitment lends momentum to the entire
tumed from Northem Ireland
Universlty.
recently, She brought wi血her
POliticians ofsuch divergent pomtS Of
PrOCeSS, and former Senate Majorlty
Leader George Mitchell, Who is chairing
a sense ofsatisfaction that her
View and conflicting mtereStS tO be sit‑
the talks.
natural optlmism had, at least
tmg arOund a table talking for the first
Shamon is optlmistic血at血e initiative
time in the history ofmodem Northem
Will end in success, POmtmg Out that a
Ireland is momentous ‑ eVen though
new pragmatism has entered Northem
PrOgreSS has inevitably been sIow
Ireland politics.
POrtions,
When Elizabeth Shannon re‑
for once, been JuStified.
Her account ofthe Northem Ireland
Troubles, 1Am qf方elの楊first appeared
For Unionist and nationalist
Most political parties
in 1987, a time when most observers
Shannon glVeS muCh ofthe credit for
believed the province was doomed to
bangmg heads together to Britain,s
back,
POlitical stagnation and unremitting
young and energetic prlme minister,
Ian Paisley, Whose Democratic Unionist
violence.
understand that there is no tuming
she says.
The old guard, SuCh as
Tony Blair・ With a large parliamentary
Party is boycotting the talks, do not
Ten years later, an eXPanded and up‑
maJOrlty, he, unlike his predecessor, has
Wield血e influence they once did. There
dated paperback version ofthe book ‑
no need ofsupport from Northem Ire‑
is a completely new, mature generation
Which) unlquely, glVeS WOmen
s perspec‑
land politicians to prop up his govem‑
Ofyoung men and women in Northem
tives on血e conflict ‑ has just been pub‑
ment and has forged ahead with the
Ireland who were bom after the Troubles
1ished by血e University of Massachusetts
PeaCe talks regardless of any opposition
On their part.
started and who see themselves as mod‑
Press. This time the North could be near‑
mg PeaCe, 1tS POliticians engaged in all‑
Blair is a modemlZmg force, Shamon
Or loyalists. The old sectarian warfare is
anathema to them.
Party talks aimed at丘nally achieving a
SayS
Se血ement and bringmg tO a dose the bit‑
adminstrations in Scotland and VⅤales ‑
Another slgn Ofthe changmg tlmeS is
glⅤmg血ose reglOnS a meaSure OfcontroI
the entry ofNorthem Ireland women
over their own affairs ‑ COuld make it
into politics
easier for Northem Ireland to come to
tion to the orlgmal book is an analysis of
ter feuding that began more than three
Centuries ago at血e Battle of血e Boyne.
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C O M M O N W E AI.T H
血e women
s political movement there.
One reason for her interest in North‑
SPOke to a group ofus from Boston in
erations have howled as we
Belfast City Hall・ It was a witty
battle, Whirling our weapons above our
eloquent,
ve charged into
em Ireland in the丘rst place, Shannon
and powerful speech. She focused on the
heads
notes, WaS Curioslty aS tO Why the grow‑
efforts ofwomen in Ireland to reconcile
to try to say a few血ings about my topIC,
ing political competence ofwomen in
the political strife that was tearing the
and I
the south ofIreland in the 1980s was not
COuntry aPart. As we walked into lunch
you. And血en I
being replicated in the north. (Shamon
a血er the meetmg, One Ofthe American
Impromptu and potluck,血e presenta‑
lived in Dublin for four years when her
WOmen tumed to me and said, ̀Ifshe
tion was never血eless far from desultory.
husband, the late William Shannon, WaS
COuld govem the way she can talk, Why
Both Pinsky
U・S. ambassador to Ireland during the
doesn
Chose fed a theme to which he has dearly
t she run for president?
In November Mary McAleese was
Carter administration. )
Ⅵもmen were always a powerful force
in Northem Ireland at street and com‑
is ̀all ofthe above.
So I,m gomg
m also gomg tO read a few poems to
ll do as I
m told.
s remarks and血e poems he
devoted some time and血ought: however
elected president of Ireland.
impersonal new technoIogleS may Seem,
一二MS
血ey are essentially familiar.
Digital culture,
mumty level, keepmg families and neigh‑
he said,
is part ofhis‑
borhoods together throughout the
tory It smells ofus. It is human. We made
Troubles. But they were not a political
it. It
force
Our history as a species as any pamtlng Or
Partly because they shumed poli‑
tics as sectarian and divisive,
she says.
POem Or garment. And ifwe had different
Ex LIBRIS
However, the altered political cli‑
s just as much an outcome ofall of
Cultural habits, if our bodies had evoIved
mate and the prospect ofindusion in
differently, it would be different. The one
the all‑Party negOtiations led last year to
Obert Pinsky has never cared for
the creation ofa new poli亡ical party, the
homework. In high school he
Northem Ireland Women
COuld read every chapter in the
haps revealed血e observation as an echo,
history text, he says, eXCePt the
later when he read from his 1980 book‑
s Coalition,
OPen tO WOmen Ofall political and reli‑
glOuS PerSuaSions. Even so, the new
Coalition still managed to get two rep‑
resentatives elected in a recent election
臆One Catholic, One Protestant ‑ and
PrOfessor in BU
length poem An E呼楊mtion〆Ameri錫:
s graduate Creative Wi.it‑
Becu∫e a∫ a〃脇役グ訪a彫物eir
1ng Program, he never lectures from notes.
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He is a gifted orator and a student of血e
乃ue or珍魚a初物come to ∫eem
JaZZ SaXOPhone ‑ he prefers improvisa‑
talks. ,,
tion to preparation.
do mのtic.
了功e brick m妨げNわE穆楊nd on劾eir
She says that Boston Universlty WaS
ⅥたIl, Wit is not wit which falters when it
instrumental in this development. In
admiration丘nds. On October 9, ful糾ing
1994 the Universlty SPOnSOred and
an o億cial responsibifty as血e nation
Are broodi徴C楊∬iら物e舟oタグHとme
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POet laureate, Pinsky opened血e Library of
WOmen, Reaching Common Gro皿d,
Congress
Which encouraged them to enter the
Ceived, and entirely extemporized, address.
It
POlitical arena.
Pinsky echoed血at observation, Or Per‑
博ExOne TEMPORE,
that had been asslgned. As a
the women have taken their place at the
hosted a three‑day conference for Irish
血ing we can rely on is血at it reflects us.
s fa11址erary season wi血a weH‑re‑
s weird. It
s not by choice,
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he says
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Over触y women came
to the conference and leamed缶om their
Ofhis tendency to wmg lt.
American counterparts about ways of
uations I
ParticIPating m POlitics,
tion・ It
she says. ̀̀I
助ワe COme tO be ′わilゐedのm,d幼rbane.
In certain sit‑
m simply incapable of prepara葛
s a psychoIogical血ing. I just can
t
Pinsky is血e Hbrary of Congress
s血irty‑
think that what we helped to start has
do it. I made a couple ofstarts at trymg tO
nin血consultant in poetry and nin血poet
laureate. His book :Zhe F砂v彬d l砺eeみN揚
culminated in enormous success and that
Write血e血ing ‑丘ve or six pages臆but
the women,s movement will grow to
I didn,亡like them・ I threw them away・
md Co〃ecz杉d IわemちI966」996, in which
Play a slgnificant role in Northem Ire‑
Finally, I just decided I
An Eやlのmtion QfAmerica is reprinted,
land
though I were teaching a dass.
s future.
Shamon says the updated JAm qf
That
d approach it as
was one ofthree finalists for the 1997
Pulitzer prlZe in poetry. It has also eamed
s a class, mind you, that convenes
方elankwill be her丘nal word on North‑
in血e Library of Congress
ern Ireland.高The book
SOn Memorial Building and has as its
etry Prize, grVen by血e Academy ofAmer‑
COurSe heading Digital C山田re and血e In‑
ican Poets and 7he Nわめn magazine, and
dividual Soul.
血e English‑Speaking Union
s subtitle is
Ⅵわmeクタグthe North Speの雇Ouち
POmtS Out.
she
When I wrote this, these
WOmen had very fiv chances to be heard,
sナames Madi‑
Pinsky血e $10,000 Lenore Marshall Po‑
Pinsky seemed undaunted. He charmed
bassador Book Award
s $ l ,000 Am‑
PreSented to au血ors
and the book gave血em a platform・ Now,
the audience of275 with erudition and
Who have made
a decade later, they have found their
ready humor.
don to血e interpretation ofife and culture
αIt fdl to me to decide whether to glVe
Speaking ofvoices,
she adds,
re‑
in the United States.
a lecture or a poetry reading on血is occa‑
minds me ofan occasion last year when
Sion,
Mary McAleese, a nOrthem lawyer,
Cry Of血e Pinskys,血e one血at we for gen‑
he told血em.
Not bad marks for a guy who won
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his homework.
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Tbmmasini and Thomson met in 1979,
and from France rather than from Ger‑
many. As a crltlC, Chiefly for the Nem第綴
and before long Tbmmasini had a subject
Herのld 77′ib勿ne from 1940 to 1953, he
for his Mus. A.D.血esis at SFA, a mentOr
WaS OmnlPOtent ‑ and at times abused
for his freelance music reviewmg at the
his power to get his own work perfomed
ductor, that is. Due next door at Avery
Bo∫tOn Globe, and a dose friend. Thom‑
and settle scores, muSical and un.
Fisher Hall shortly to cover a recital, he
SOn, Who died in 1989 at ninety‑five,
keeps pulling out his pocket watch like a
must have fdt the same way, aS he gave
forefather ofpostmodemism,
New York Central empIoyee alert to open
the younger man complete access to his
masini.
血e doors in time for血e next stop. Tbm‑
PaperS for血is biography.
It is hard today to appreciate血e extent
POSerS had sequestered themselves in
universities and alienated themselves
hours ago, has a story to file tonight, and
to which Virgil Thomson loomed over
from their audiences. Virgil called them
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exceptlOn Ofthe two operas on which he
and I try to show gratitude by performmg
materials in a discombobulating, fresh,
COllaborated with Gertrude Stein,劫ur
my job cheerfil]ly and also by lifting up peo‑
錫nt∫ in Th彬e A彷and TZ7e Mother g隼方
even radical way.
That simplicity can be heard beyond
Ple wi血song. We all need to reach out to
A〃・ His gift for settmg American English
O血ers while we
s own music. For example, he
text suited Stein,s lyrlCS beautifully, SayS
Can do this in different ways. My way lS
StrOngly influenced血e work ofhis semi‑
Tommasini. αHe set words with a natu‑
music. ,,
rival
ralness
Thomson
Aaron Copland, Whoses early music
WaS qulte aCidic and dissonant, WOrlds
re here. Different people
yet Startling lmagmation・ He
That spmtual commitment led him to
managed to capture what he loved about
establish choirs,丘rst at Deaconess Hos‑
away from 4鯉alのchiのn f車ri穆and o血er
Stein
POPular later works.寝Copland was kind of
Page at yOu.
s wrltmg
and the words leap off血e
Pital, Where he began working in 1965
While studying mortuary science, and
s vocal composition is cer‑
later at the Medical Center, after JOm‑
masini, αgomg血rough various styles. He
tainly dear, but it doesn,t qulte unlock
mg ltS PathoIogy department in 1969.
Went血rough his jazz phase ‑ Virgil said,
the dosed world ofStein,s poetry ‑
BMC
flailing about血ere for a while,
̀That was his one wild oat
says Tbm‑
臆and he tried
Thomson
Pigeons on the grass, alas
from Fou
s all‑VOlunteer choir, aCtive since
1970
has become both a popular tradi‑
to be the nice Parisian neodassical student
$のin如COmeS tO mind. αThat was fine
tion and an important support program
for patients and staffat the Medical
OfBoulanger・ When Virgil came along
With him,
With his plaintive harmonies, his open
αHe could not stand things that were
intervals
not clear in expression. But he didn
his spacious‑SOunding musIC, 1t
totally transformed Copland・
Thomson
s fresh approach to criticism
likewise shook up American music writ‑
mg. He was a mordant stylist who knew
says Tommasini with a smile.
Center.
t
Each year血e ensemble
s performances
Care at all about things that were not
Start in mid「January wi血a medley ofspir‑
Clear in meanmg. He thought that was
ituals and αLift Every Voice and Sing
sort of紅n.,,
(known as血e black national an血em) at a
‑ MBS
PrOgram honormg both Martin Luther
music and the music business better than
Kng, Jr., and black achievers at血e Med‑
almost any other critic. αThe guy was so
ical Center・ In early December the group
brilliant
SO interestmg
that you had to
read everything he wrote,
says Tom‑
CarOIs at the ceremonial lighting of the
MusICAL MEDIC音NE
Christmas tree in Wbrcester Square and
masini. He was also courageous, Wagmg
a long battle
for instance, agamSt the
mediocrlty Of RudoIph Bing
SPreads holiday cheer during血e mon血
(OR TⅡE ADVIL CHORUS)
by paymg muSical visits to all the hospl‑
s tenure at
tal
s nursmg units.
Other occasions evoke the resources of
the Metropolitan Opera. αOfcourse,
there were cases that weren,t so noble,
ell
where he had favorites or where he
approprlately melodious. From
Gala for empIoyees at the Westin Hotel
his childhood in Savamah, Geor‑
Onナune 13, the choir sang a medley of
Picked endlessly on people who were
hostile to him.
Compo∫er Om′肋e A寂e is a portrait ofan
artist who could be charmmg and gener「
OuS, aS Well as spiteful and cruel.
Were tO redo the book, I would be a
little more carefulぅ
Tbmmasini says.
αTo relate a story ofVirgil,s being
mean seems to pack more ofa wal‑
lop than I intended it to. What
drove him to be that wayうOne
WaS his homosexuality, Which
he never resoIved. The other
WaS his constant jockeying for
POWer and acdaim and the
acceptance ofhis music.
The music was acdaimed
until Thomson stepped
down as the Iナib,s chief
critic. Little is heard
IfI
s serenely resonant bass is
its repertoire. During BMC
Broadway musical dassics.
∩h) I Iove
V料non
Tru‑
gla smgmg!
the founding
director
of血e
Boston Medical Center Choir has been
loved it
deeply engaged with music.
I can
The crowd
says Valerie Navy‑Daniels,
BMC community‑relations director,
t remember a period when
tions ofthe choruses of ̀Hello, Dolly.
But then, the choir never fails to cheer
home and in school and church,
SayS Truell, Whose official SchooI
its audience.
ofMedicine title is chief
The choir often performs a cappella, but
is sometimes accompanied
PathoIogy assistant. Later,
he performed across the
廿ue11, Who plays血e piano
South with a group called血e
Simmons Singers.
all areas of BMC
I kept smgmg after I arrived
he says. Their rehears‑
als take place during extended lunch breaks
in Boston in the mid‑60s,
feel right ifI couldn
uSually by
strictly by ear.
The鉦een to twenty members come from
Naturauy,
t think I
eS‑
PeCially when Vemon gave soIo rendi‑
my siblings and I didn,t smg at
he says. ̀̀I don
s Summer
and sometimes after work. αThese are
d
dedicated people)
he says. αIt
s humbling
to work with them.
t smg
αI血ink the most important血ing血e
and share songs with
others.
Choir does
A deacon (and ofcourse
he adds? αis to let patients
know that they,re not forgotten・ When
today (Tommasini has
a choir member) at the
you see sick people
Weighed in with two
People
s Baptist Church
CauSe they know you care for them and
on Camden Street in Bos‑
love血em, yOu know you,re doing some‑
CDs ofThomson
s
music on Northeast‑
em Records), With the
ton, Truell says,
God en‑
s eyes fill wi血tears be‑
thing lmPOrtant.
ables me to work. This is a gift
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and his co11eagues stared up at the sky without see‑
mg What血ey were looking for ‑ StOmS in space. They
Were ready to pack it in when an e‑mail arrived from
̀̀血e boys at NASA, Saymg that there was a nice solar
Wind disturbance,, commg tOWard Ear血, SayS Mendillo
亜OR TWO APRIL
MICHAEL
MENDILLO
(C4$ NIGHTS)
6β,
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a PrOfessor ofastronomy
in血e
College of
Arts and Sciences.
Solar wind may sound strange ifyou think ofthe sun as merely a
SOurCe Of light. In fact, magnetic〇五eld coils millions of miles wide lift off
the sun and form huge disturbances in the solar wind that engulf our
Planet) Creatmg enOrmOuS electrical effects that ca皿seriously affect satel‑
1ite and radio communication systems and power systems. Those hurri‑
CaneS Ofelectrical energy make up space wea血er.
On April ll, the night after the e‑mail, the aurora borealis ‑ the
nor血em lights ‑ 1it血e sky in血e Nor血east, Shortly after血e solar storm
hurtled past血e Earth. The aurora flowed to much lower latitudes血an
usual血at night, bringlng血e spectral glow as far sou血as Boston.
What was remarkable about the event wasn
t so much that it hap‑
Pened, but that it attracted so much attention. At the Millstone Hi11
Observatory m nOr血east Massachusetts) Mendillo and his co11eagues Alli‑
SOn Morrill and丁oei Wroten were using highly sensitive imaging systems
to make pICtureS Of the entire sky, and around the globe others were
doing血e same. Meanwhile) mStrumentS aboard satellites far out in space
Were taking snapshots of血e solar energy as it approached and entered the
Ear血
s atmosphere. News services even carried bulletins about the solar
StOm and its impact on communications systems.
Ten years ago a space weather storm would not have generated血at
flurry of actrvlty. But wi血at least l ,400 satellites launched since血en, a11
exposed in some degree to dangers produced indirectly by energy from
血e sun
Plus increasmgly obvious effects of space wea血er on血e ground
‑ including血e 1989 blackout of HydroQuebec
s power grid in Canada
‑ SPaCe Wea血er research has taken off Perhaps it
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years ago, With four faculty members and a total staffofabout
OneS are the most effective in producing stoms.
Once the CME has left the sun, uSually in the form of
eight. Now more than丘fty people are a飴Iiated with the cen‑
huge magnetic丘elds
ter, Which thrives on grants from NASA, the National Science
two pleCeS,
Foundation, and the Department of Defense.
trial weather analogue. Ifyou think ofthe CME as a hurri‑
We have long known that space storms can disrupt or
destroy shortwave radio transmissions, but only more
recently have we understood that they can take down entire
electrical systems
COrrOde oil and other pIPelines
and give
Cane that
αyou have to break the story up mtO
continues Siscoe.
One pleCe五ts into the terres‑
s been generated on the sun, yOu hope you,re not
in血e way, JuSt aS yOu might hope a hurricane doesn
your way・
however. The big difference is that
terrestrial storms do
astronauts out for space walks heavy doses of radiation. Still,
most of血eir damage by wind
COnCem ft)r Satellites
their damage almost completely by electrlClty,
defense‑related and commercial, Prl‑
t come
The second piece doesn,t parallel Ear血wea血er,
and space wea血er stoms do
says Siscoe.
marily motivates the drive to understand ‑ and predict ‑
And unlike a hurricane rummg mtO yOu directly, the solar
SPaCe Weather・ The U.S. Department of Defense estimates
Wind is kept away from the Earth,s surface by a protective
that the e任震ts ofspace weather cost it over $500 million
Shield known as the magnetosphere. Part ofthe Earth,s mag‑
annually; COmmerCial satellite communications providers
netic丘eld, the magnetosphere is Iocated about 36,000 miles
WOn
from Earth.
t talk costs
but are clearly worried, SayS Astronomy
αThe magnetosphere, it tums out
Assistant Professor Harlan Spence (C4S,8手).
1S eSSentially an enor‑
Researchers of solar‑terreStrial connections now have an
extra reason to hurry: the next peak ofthe stln
s historical
eleven‑year CyCle ofenergetic actlVity is due in 2000 or 200l.
The goal seems simple: Predict space wea血er much as mete‑
OrOIoglStS nOW Predict血e next set ofshowers. The trouble is,
meteoroIoglStS have been at it for almost lOO years and have
used numerical and computer modeling for the past 50. In
SPaCe Weather prediction,血is is JuSt about year one.
Hurricanes and Giant Dynamos
S
toms on Earth provide a good analogy for space weather,
up to a point.
Solar actlⅤlty lS a manifおtation of terres‑
trialrtype weather taking place on血e sun,
says Astronomy
Rcsearch Professor George Siscoe. Think hurricanes, but big‑
ger) muCh bigger・ Astronomers have long associated ma〕Or
flares ‑ highly intense but small‑SCale brightenmgS ‑ On the
Sun With geomagnetic disturbances showing up on Earth
a few days later・ But it wasn,t until the early 1970s that
astronomers usmg mStrumentation aboard the Skylab mis‑
Sion saw some血ing far more massive at work, Which tumed
Out tO be the prlmary CauSe Ofbo心血e geomagnetic distur‑
bances and the associated flares.
Called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), these profound
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The solar wind blows from the sun continually, and a coro‑
nal mass eJeCtion is like a big bubble in the solar wind
,,
mous electromagnetic generator with a two‑teraWatt [tril‑
1ions ofwatts] rated power output, about equivalent to the
explains Astronomy Research Professor Nancy Crooker・
entire power consumptlOn Ofthe United States,
Thanks to a satellite called SOHO (for Solar Heliospheric
When the solar wind
says Siscoe.
laden wi血a huge magnetic coil, hits lt
Observatory), 1aunched a few years ago, SCientists can take
any section ofthe coil with a polarity opposite that ofthe
PICtureS Ofthe CMEs with an instrument called a corona‑
magnetospheric五eld comects with it. The comected丘elds,
graph・ Understanding how CMEs work is the subject of
like pIPeS
much research) induding Crooker,s.毎V料y little is known
tosphere. Siscoe compares it to pluggmg mtO an electrical
about血e mechanism that causes血ese eruptlOnS,
engme
she says.
αWe
re trymg tO WOrk out their morphoIogy m the solar
Wind
and with regard to space weather, tO丘gure out which
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making血em vulnerable to space weather effects.
s that generation ofthe terawatts that generates
I saw two shootmg StarS last night
SPaCe Weather.
I wished on them, but they were only sate11ites,
Spence puts it another way・ αSpace is not a vacuum.
There are charged partides in space
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
and those charged parti‑
Cles carry electrical currents, JuSt like in a socket. The differ‑
‑ Billy Bragg, ̀̀A New England,
ence is that in the wall your current is golng through wire,
but here it
s just flowmg all血rough space ‑ it,s totally dis‑
tributed. During stoms
these particles that get trapped in
血e field increase) SO血e current goes up?
he says. αThe sys‑
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1ites. Since 1978 over 2,700 satellites have been launched,
tem tries to come to some kind ofsteady state, a balance
and many more are planned as血e demand for global com‑
between the solar wind rushing past the Earth and the
munications increases. Because satellites stay m SPaCe for丘ve
Earth,s magnetosphere) Which acts like a buffer・ So you get
to ten years)血ey not only bear血e brunt ofmagnetic storms
an impulse ‑ this cavity caused by the magnetic field [as it
but also suffer long‑term eXPOSure effects. Some satellites are
hits the magnetosphere], Which kind ofrings like a bell. The
in orbits that take them repeatedly through the Van AIIen
Whole system oscillates, and血at
radiation belts
That
s a magnetic stom.,,
s when血e action starts. ̀Ahl that electrlClty gener‑
a doughnut‑Shaped reg10n in the Earth,s
magnetic field血at traps and stores energetic partides; all that
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explains Siscoe. Energetic par‑
ticles are electrons, ions (positively charged partides formed
radiation can harm electronic components
When electrons are stripped from atoms), Or Whole atoms
Other materials. O血er satellites are subject to bombardment
With much higher energy than nomal. αYou)ve in essence
by partides血at can alter orbits and erode surfaces.
But it
got local generators out of this terawatt generator creatmg
̀killer electrons
and a very bad energetic particle environ‑
雪
ment for machines and people in space ‑ that
the energy goes)
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s where a lot of
he says. On top of血at, Other energy goes
into creatlng electric currents with megawatts of power that
SIosh around the ionosphere) the layer ofthe Earth
s upper
SOlar cells
and
s those killer electrons that probably damage
SPaCeCraft systems most, aCCOrding to Astronomy Professor
Ttd Fritz. Magnetic storms can produce very energetic mas‑
Sive ions that crash into material insulating sensitive elec‑
tronic components on a satellite) electrons flying off at very
high speeds. αThese energetic electrons can penetrate and get
atmosphere that is partially ionized by energetic particles
Very deep mSide satellites,
from space. Those are the currents that can get into power
satellites must be insulated with what
lines or other long pleCeS Of conductive material, SuCh as
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Fritz says. All electrical devices on
s called dielectric mate‑
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trate the dielectric and actually remain there,
Fritz explains.
αThey deposit a charge there. So you can have this charge
electrical power plugged into the Earth
s atmosphere, ener‑
gized particles spin down to血e ionosphere, Creatmg aurOraS
and sometimes inducing currents on Earth
s surface. When
buildup, and ifit gets high enough, the center conductor
enough power gets into electric transmission lines, for instance,
COuld血en arc to血e shield and bum a hole right血rough血e
血e direct electrical current reaches血e transfomers血at regu‑
Shield material・ This phenomenon of deep dielectric chargmg
late血e power supply. The power is converted into heat,血e
is thought to be responsible for satellite upsets.
heat intensifies, and transformer components can melt down.
That
s what may have happened to two Canadian com‑
And when one goes,血e entire power grid can shut down, aS
munications satellites, Anik E‑ l and Anik E‑2, Which spun out
happened with HydroQuebec. Most recorded power shut‑
Ofcontrol in January 1994. Ttlsat Canada regained controI of
downs caused by space wea血er occurred in血e worst magnetic
Anik E‑l wi血in eight hours, but took many mon血s to fully
StOrmS at血e peak of血e solar wea血er cycle. Wi血a new solar
recover command of血e o血er sate皿e. Likewise, On January
maximum commg SOOn, mOre disturbances can be expected,
ll, 1997, AT8cT Iost contact with a $200 million Telstar
SayS Spence. What to do汗̀There are easy work‑arOunds for
telecommunications satellite, Which suddenly failed when the
this, but it always comes down to血e question, do you build
COunt Ofvery energetic electrons went up dramatically
for the血irty‑year flood, Which costs a lot, Or do you tolerate
The solution? One possibility lS tO make the insulating
血e丘ve‑year floods and suffer血e consequences?
material thicker and thus more resistant to the killer elec‑
Tbday
s space weather forecast is. ‥
trons. But every extra ounce adds tens of血ousands ofdollars
to launching costs. Another possibility would be to tum off
the voltage to parts of the satellite system when killer elec‑
W
hat
s needed, then, is the ability to predict space
Weather, tO make forecasts much like the National
trons are nearby ‑ ifground control knew when血e stoms
Weather Service does every day for Earth. Easier said than
Were COmmg.
done.
So there is value in forecastmg Or nOW‑CaSt‑
mg, tO Say tO a Satellite operator, ̀You
that
re in an environment
s pretty dangerous, and you should consider basic
maneuvers to keep your satellite safe/
Communications isn
says Fritz.
t the only field affected by space
MeteoroIoglStS have some 10,000 observation sta‑
tions, Plus satellites ‑ they are data‑rich,
says Siscoe.
Comparatively, We are data‑StarVed, many Orders of magnl‑
tude data‑StarVed, because space is big, Satellites are expen‑
Sive, and you don
t get many to cover a large ground.
The
Weather. In March 1989, a tranSformer on one ofthe main
SOlution is to build computer models of space weather, and
transmission lines in the HydroQuebec electric power system
last year the first full‑SCale model came on‑1ine at the Air
failed
Force Space Wea血er Squadron.
a direct result of a maJOr SPaCe Wea血er disturbance.
More than six million people went without power for over
nine hours. αIfit had hit Washington
more funding,
We WOuld have gotten
jokes Spence.
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It takes
essentially opera血ng m a forecast mode, finding out what your
The comection between power systems and space
Wea血er seems tenuous, but it
But like early wea血er forecasts, Which were often wrong,
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mistakes are, COnStantly correctmg, COnStantly upgrading your
equlPment, COnStantly upgrading your algorithm ‑ tO
improve,
says Siscoe.
And血at process JuSt gOt Started one
year ago. The skil1 1evel has gone up, and we can expect it to
COntinue to go up
low血e distribution ofpartides in the reglOn Ofspace around
and it,s gomg tO be paced by血e amount
Ear血・ More discoveries will probably follow the scheduled
Ofmonitomg hardware we can put up血ere and血e comput‑
launch of several Cluster satellites, Carrymg mStrumCntS
ers we can get for space weather forecastmg.
In fact, Siscoe
WOrks with a group αputtlng tOgether codes for numerical
SPaCe Weather forecastmg
,, and says it should be ready in
Understanding what happens to血e sun)s energy when it
s magnetic fields is critical to
making accurate space weather forecasts. While it
1996 when an Ariame 5 rocket carrymg four satellites into
SPaCe blew up shortly after takeofffrom French Guiana.
血ree to丘ve years, in time for血e next solar maximum.
gets plugged into the Earth
designed by Fritz and his colleagues, Startmg in 2000. Fritz
WOrked on血e first incamation of血at proJeCt ‑ destroyed in
Eager for new data
he has high hopes for the next launching
as血e sun reaches its maximum ofmagnetic actlVlty.
s known
血at some energetic partides flow into the Van Allen radia‑
tion belts and other energetic partides flow along what are
known as field lines to the ionosphere and other reglOnS Of
Meanwhile,
COllectmg and analyzmg
BackaS on
muCh Earth
data as they could
s not the end ofthe story一
about the geomagnetic storm ofApril l l, in preparation for
Which occur up to four times a day.
SCientific conferences this winter・ Building a case study of
the Earth)s atmosphere) that
心ere are also substorms
endillo and company were busy in the summer and fall
M
If a geomagnetic storm is like a hurricane, Spence says
̀̀a
Substorm is more like a tomado, muCh more intense, but
more localized in space and time, a reglOnal effect.
SuCh a solar event is important
Mendillo says, because space
Wea血er is so variable. αIn old‑fashioned physics, Chemistry,
And Or bioIogy, ifyou want to see how a system works, yOu hit it
While magnetic storms typically last a day or two, Substorms
to see what it does,
last hours and happen in reg10nS Where血e particles aren,t
to make血e pomt. αIn high energy physics) yOu Shoot in par置
really trapped. αThey get energized
While
they stick around for a
and血en血ey are JuSt SOrt Of lost out ofthis bottle,
unlike the particles trapped in the
bottle
of the Vin AIlen
radiation belts.
he says, rapPmg a PenCil wi血his finger
ticles and blast an atom to bits, find a11 the pleCeS, and see
What the atom looks like. We
re doing that sort of controlled
SPaCe eXPeriment, although,
he adds with a smile, αit
s not
so controlled.
s magnetic field is the
Understanding cause and effect in a system so large and
and scientists are making new discov‑
di綿cult to observe is what distinguishes space wea血er study
Tracking the partides in血e Earth
CruX Ofmuch research
eries now at a rapid pace, thanks largely to research instru‑
̀̀What
s confusing is血at you might get disturbances in血e
ments on satellites recently put in space. The Polar satellite,
SOlar wind that look remarkably slmilar, but血e effects are dif
launched in 1996) Carries several instruments designed by
ferent. We don
BU
s Fritz and Spence. With data from血ose instruments,
血eir science team at血e Center for Space Physics came upon
t understand qulte Why that should be,
Mendi1lo notes. αThat happened on April ll一心is was not a
Particularly strong magnetic stom or solar wind effect, but
What Fritz calls a slgni丘cant discovery ‑ that a reglOn OVer
aurora came down over Boston and lasted a皿night long. What
the polar cap Iong thought devoid of particles is actually a
WOuld cause血e aurora to come血is far sou血, and how can
generator of many partides
We traCk it back? Can we stop the arm‑WaVmg and actually
Called the cusp
mCluding血ose killer electrons.
lt is where the day‑Side and night‑Side ofthe
identify, quantitatively,血e flow of energy in these processes? ,,
Ear血come together in the polar reg10n. αWt were finding
For血at night alone, Mend皿o discovered, a Weal血ofdata
energetic particles血ere all血e time,, wi血imagers from血e
WaS available for study.
It
Polar satellite) SayS Fritz) Who suspects that energetic partides
Widespread. Ybu say) I
m interested in what happened on血is
s remarkable血at space actlVity is so
generated by血e solar wind collect血ere before passmg along
One night
the field lines to cause magnetic disturbances.
血e Polar satellite taking images up血ere, a Whole network of
and you find out several satellites were whizzing by,
O血er new approaches have been made at血e Center for
Stations interested in血e atmosphere ‑血e Coast Guard, Fed置
Space Physics thanks to their instruments aboard the Polar
eral Aviation Administration, global positionmg sate皿es ‑ SO
Satellite. αSince we,re measuring mVisible things,
血ere
says
s sort ofa detective story feeling to it.
,
t image them血e way we image血e sun・ But
So the whodunit ‑ Or really, Whatdunit ‑ Ofspace
We have a new technique ca11ed energetic neutral atom imag‑
Weather has many chapters to go before the resolution. As
mg that is allowmg uS tO make the丘rst‑eVer global pictures of
COmmunications rely increasmgly on space technology, the
how the magnetosphere is responding, eVen With a smgle
race to understand the whole
SPaCeCraft.
SPeeds up. αSome of it
Spence
αwe can
Energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) are produced
When the particles in the radiation belts interact with the
Outer atmOSPhere of the Earth
flying off in all directions.
dous. Despite血e fact血at血ere is very little mass in血e mag‑
netosphere
movement ofENAs in space. Unaffected by the Ear血,s mag‑
have impacts on血e ground
netic field? neW ENAs shoot out in straight trayectories from
until recently, it wasn
tored by satellites? allowmg Spence and his colleagues to fol‑
,, says Spence.
̀̀The volume ofspace we,re talking about here lS JuSt tremen‑
The result is an altoge血er new kind ofhome movie ‑ Of血e
the pomtS Of the charge exchange, their movement moni‑
tO Predict stoms in space,
s very nonintuitive
̀̀We
Stuff
血ere is a great deal of electrical energy血at can
and certainly in space.
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JEAN
HENNEL」Y
KEI丁H
H〆d hのn妙∫t呼ped砂hen物e Nor勅諭クd ∫Creamed
and oolhded
hの楊秒初hi∫ mのin脇iろ膨妨buik to劾e脇′r‑heそ幼め
and oa御者u揚nd・ A 5h往7 1初狐肱r雛d a′nd p徹紗彫d
才o l砂の財broのd∫idら鋤m徳ed砂のタorm′‑(噺形動砂a鋤
M紗h勿御On aつ砂a彬亙m巧妙Othe御物eJ準pi物
か0勿飲クO膨dタイ脇楊脇nd ∫mrmi物Wiih l砂at鍬
I lO2‑107,勅eAenei4 Virgn, 70‑19 B.C.
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
McCann viewed last summer from
a submarine a halfmile below an
ancient Roman trading route could
easily have resulted from such a丘erce
StOrm aS Virgil
above.
聞HE SHIPWRECKS
ANNA describes
MARGUERITE
About l)000 years after the Greek vessels retummg
from廿oy were assailed by a tempest, Roman trading
Ships faced peril in roug曲y血e same westem Mediter‑
ranean location (see map).
Adjunct professor of archaeoIogy in血e College of
Arts and Sciences, McCam is a pIOneer underwater
archaeoIoglSt,血e first to use血e new robotic technol‑
Ogy tO explore血e deep sea. Wi血expertise in Roman
trade and ancient artifacts, She says血e archaeoIogical
Objects raised from the wrecks, Which date from血e
late second or early first century B.C. to血e end of血e
four血century A.D・, SPanrmg anCient Rome
s seafaring
COmmerCial period, have a story to tell about Roman
economic life,
OPermg a neW Chapter in血e economic
history of血is world, uPOn Which our modem one is
based.,,
Last May McCam embarked on the Skerki Bank
Deep Sea ArchaeoIogical PrQject,血e first interdiscip虹
nary co11aboration to explore血e deep sea. She, aS Chief
archaeoIogist, directed血e archaeology/conservation
Ama Mゐ微妙erite加わC揚m ∫tudie∫ m m′Cie紡Romのn
のn碑ho脇&boの履物e Carolyn Chouestjbr zhe Sher巌
Ba巌Prq加t in力ne 」997
PHOTOGRÅPH: 〔OURTE!Y A州A MARGUERiTE McC州N; MAP: DOUGLAS 」. PARKER
team; Dana Yoerger ofthe Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was
Chief engmeer; and renowned explorer and
geoIogist Robert D. Ba11ard led血e expedi‑
tion. Ballard, discoverer of the R.M.S.
乃揚mC) the Geman battleship Bi∫marC雇,
and血e luxury liner Lu∫i物mら1S PreSident of
血e new Institute for ExpIoration (IFE) in
Mystic, Comecticut. Wbrking m intema‑
tional waters at dep血s of about 2,500 feet,
血e tean discovered血e remains ofeight saH‑
1ng Ships off the northwest coast of Sicily,
induding血e first concentration of ancient
Shipwrecks ever found in血e deep sea. Five
Roman merchantmen, One Islamic丘shing
VeSSe1 1ikely from the eighteenth or nine‑
teenth century) and two merchant ships
PrObably lost in the nineteenth century were discovered.
An省hom∫勃t ome m初ht hの彬carried巌nら偽p卿rγed
Roman artifacts, Which had rested undisturbed on血e ocean
互uiちOr〆切脇uCe lie oタグ物e Midiier脇雛mグ華OO考∬me 2,000
floor for 2,000 years
yeのダリ〆おr幼少秒e紡d鋤m妙ith研radi物励み
included amphoras ‑ terra‑COtta Ship‑
Pmg COntainers for olive oil, wine, PreSerVed fruits, Or a fish
SauCe CaⅡedg鋤物m. One sdu sealed, with contents to be sam‑
Skerki Bank piqued interest as a rich exploration site in
is from one of血e earliest Roman shipwrecks ever found.
1989 on血e JASON Project, a Ba皿ard expedition, for which
The prq)eCt WaS funded by a vanety of sources, including血e
McCam was also directing archaeoIogist. The initial JASON
U.S. Navy) the National Geographic Society
and
PrQject was血e first deep‑Water arChaeoIogical expedition and
W皿e Boston Universlty SuPPOrted血e archaeo‑
血e first live創ming and sate皿te telecommunication from血e
Pled
O血er donors
the IFE
logical team.
OCean floor・ More血an 225,000 children at a vanety Ofdown‑
1ink sites in North America viewed and interacted in real time
M細野擁eb′ mCie紡Ro徽物脇de r脇妨iタグ劾e Midi鋤‑
rのnea秩La∫t脇mmeク;鍍er巌Ba巌(Ⅹ),の卿グの彬のin i微妙r‑
m加のalつ砂ate硯筋劾e nor劾砂鋤け薙げSic海yie揚ed eそ勿タ
カを妙彬宛imln巌物砂ef′Om mCie紡Rome. Art物の打者om
物e秒移譲∫ ∫獲拶釘t that the ∫iteつ雅∫ On m mCie紡印e%一勝a
脇de r微妙be力We錫Ro徽e md Car劾物e佃o妙了易n砂on the
Nbrth 4かica桁oa′∫t.
wi血JASON tean members as血ey discovered a late Roman
merchant shipwreck, nicknamed J訪, and established Skerki
Bank as part of an ancient trade route. Located seventy‑five
miles o任血e northwest coast of Sicily巨n intemational waters,
Skerki Bank is a twenty‑Square‑nautical‑mile reef that has
bedeviled ships from ancient times. Characterized by sudden,
Violent storms and crosscurrents,血e
Water reSearCh.
reglOn forms a Mediterranean Ber‑
Water tend to be well preserved, With
muda Triangle and is a likely trove of
血eir cargoes intact,
lost ships. To Roman archaeoIoglSt
low water they are more likely to get
Shipwrecks in deep
she says.
In shal‑
McCam, it seemed worthy of fur血er
banged by waves or looted by treasure
inve stlgation.
hunters. Wi心力∫On, it hit me between
Until recently, undersea expIo‑
the eyes. I sawwhat it could do. The
ration was limited to waters less than
deep sea is opemng uP, and it
200 feet deep, Within the reach of
血at archaeoIoglStS get in血ere.
s critical
SCuba. It has been believed generally
For血e Skerki Bank PrQject, McCam
that ancient mariners did not choose
Carefully selected a small intemational
the open seas for their trade routes.
tean of archaeoIoglStS and conservation
Now血ere is evidence to血e contrary
SCientists w血various areas of expertise.
Robotic technoIogy developed at
Preceding her team, McCam left last
WHOI by Ballard and a group of
May for Italy to embark on what would
engmeerS has produced a remotely
become the Skerki Bank ProJeCt
OPerated vehicle (ROV), JirJ物and its
mo血er ship in血e Mediterranean, mer‑
towed support sled, Medea, Which
Chant marine ship Carob′% C
greatly increase access to血e deep sea.
six weeks. From the Choue∫tMcCann
カ∫Om′ is an unmamed computerized
robot equlPPed with camera, armS,
s
脇e∫ちfor
A potfbrクem′era′l h脇∫ehold勿JらmOre物m
boarded血e U.S. Navy nuclear subma‑
ZOOOyea狗0楊i∫ O雛ゲ劾e artを移肋recoリー
rine NR‑1, equlPPed with long‑range
and claws. Controlled by computer
eredf′Omタheつ砂reC局毎m m寂entクrのdi物
bottom‑SCammg SOnar. An adventurous
technoIogy, 1t Can descend to 20,000
訪勿砂i賜る500jをet domタグin iカe Mediter‑
PIOneer血roughout her career, nOtably
feet ‑血e maximum dep血of98 per‑
rのmm・ Art物捗retrie彬djれm e勿ht J履,∫
in the 1950s as the first woman SCuba‑
Cent Ofoceans ‑ tO map, Photograph,
砂ere l寂lpre∫erγed iクク物e Jti〃 wa杉祢at thi∫
diving archaeologlSt and in 1965 as dis‑
し
COVerer Of血e port of Cosa as an ancient
l
preγi脇砂m印lored d省み
∋
I
Roman trading center, McCam, ta11 and
l
glass, Place血em in net containers, and
i
and safely lift objects as delicate as
‑
athletic, found her丘rst submarine travel血rilling. Ofher expe‑
‑
bring血em to an underwater elevator to be raised to血e sur‑
‑
‑
(
face. On血eナASON Project (named after the ROVカ∫Om′), rience aboard血e 12‑foot by 150‑foot submarine wi血a crew
‑
McCam was血e first archaeoIoglSt tO uSe an ROV for deep‑
Ofeleven sailors and one o血er scientist
McCam says
αWhen
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you crawl down the sub
nose and look血rough血e
POr血oles at血ese wrecks at
almost 3,000 feet, yOu aSk,
̀Who were these sailors?
Little did they know that
We WOuld find血em agam
in血e twentie血century. I
WOuld like to tell血eir story
and make them live on.,,,
In the dark (no sun‑
1ight penetrates at 2,500‑
Plus feet), CryStal‑dear deep
Water at Sites Iocated by
NR‑1
s sonar, the Skerki
Bank team viewed thou‑
Sands of ar吐aeoIogical ob‑
JeCtS StreWn along the soft
seabed. Covered with a
Very丘ne dusting ofsedi‑
mentation, Which accumu‑
lates slowly at such dep血s,
where there is no disturb‑
ing wave action, Objects
remain relatively untouched by time. McCam and her team
乃e卿moteb′呼erの杉d彬hich Jasonわl雄d ;nto zhe Mediit?r‑
Chose l15 artifacts to be raised to help date the shipwrecks
rmem k声he ∫勿bmari雛∫御O硯*勿Carolyn Chouest b〆bre
and document血e trade route. JirJ物Iowered from血e Cのr‑
de∫鋤楊物初ののCient h雀77クre楊∫ 0勉励e ∫eapOO名カJ脇mの雛u‑
Ob′n C
γered巌脇のimhe∫ゲdehcのte art物均p巌ed them舞,のnd
oue∫ちmaneuvered within inches of delicate artifacts,
gently picked them up
and transported them wi血out dam‑
age to an underwater elevator. In addition to a varied co11ec‑
tion ofkitchen and other household wares
different types of amphoras
物n呼Orted ihemタoのn eh脇的r勃脇t took物em to ihe腸移ce
〆r datiク移md ∫u勿
at least eight
fine bronze vessels
and two
heavy lead anchor stocks were retrieved. One of血e Roman
WreCks was Ioaded with building stones
1i血ic columns
mCluding mono‑
PrObably of granite. Wi心血e archaeoIoglStS
knowledge of ancient pottery, McCam,s team practiced
Aj物j訪放ble u4 mde ;n物eああ筋0微d or擁げm放りB.C.,
noninvasive archaeoIogy・ αWe can search without lifting
砂伽plu誘edf′0徽物e remin∫ゲa物diク砂訪勿‑ O雛ゲ物eゼ秒
everything, Only what we need for documentation,
のnd earhaげ訪勿研彬みルomのmie紡Romn才im釘e彬r♪mみ
SayS. αDigs destroy・ You don
she
t need to conserve what you
leave. The sea floor can be the museum.
McCam strongly advocates further laws
to protect underwater historic sites in intema‑
tional waters. Under present lavy a country can
Claim cultural property only within twelve miles
Ofits shores. Beyond that,
Can Claim,
Whoever五nds,
says McCam. Treasure hunters
and looters also have ROV technology, and
McCann fears that there will be irretrievable
loss of our maritime heritage. αThese wrecks
Off Skerki Bank glVe neW eVidence for the
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extent and diverslty Of Roman trade
she says.
αA whole new bread血ofknowledge is emerg‑
mg. The deep sea is血e new last frontier.,,
In characteristic p10neer SPirit
McCam
Plans further deep‑Sea COllaborative expedi‑
tions with Ba‑1lard and hopes to take along
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Four decades back, COnStruCtion was
under way for血e New Boston ‑
and the New Boston Universlty
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BY RALPH MEMOLO
Boston is busting out ali over‑ it[ a
̀̀New Boston,, in spirit, a SPirit thatt oniy
a ha匝dozen years old; and in another haifL
dozen years w川be ̀̀new
in a hundred
more visible ways.
1fthe nationaI press, at the present time,
finds delight in the ugliness ofthe負Old
Boston
‑ bookie shenan‑ganS, amOral contractors, Venai o簡cia!s,
and an antique govemmentaI structure ‑ it is in pass‑ng. 1t will dis‑
COVe扉n the near future, We hope, that the healthy new spirit abroad is
COnfronting the city七obsoIescence with vigor …
Boston University is in the vanguard of BostonS b冊on‑do!lar
attack
on
obsoIescence.
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Bostonia,
Spring
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HIRTY‑FIⅤE YEARS AGO) BOSTON AND BOSTON
Universlty Were in the early stages ofa dramatic
renewal that was movmg the clty Out Ofthe doldrums in
Which it had been mired for decades. While the rest ofthe
COuntry WaS SPeeding ahead on the engme Of the postwar
boom, Boston was sti11 trymg tO get its motor started. Today
血e optlmism of血at Bo加niのcover story seems to have been
On the money. It is all血e more perspICaCious ifyou consider
from what depths Boston has risen・
As far back as 1928, joumalist Elmer Davis observed血at
Boston
s sk殖ne was an indication of a malaise that a組icted
the city %In New Ybrk and Chicago
he wrote, αskyscrapers
fling new outlines agamSt the sky and are shut offwithin the
year by newer skyscrapers, but [in Boston] nothing breaks血e
gendy rlSmg Skyline until血e gilded dome of血e State House
CrOWnS and centers the pICture. It is flawless, COmPlete,丘nished,
Static, dead….,,
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Ouly a decrepit freight血e crawled along Atlantic Avenue,血e
OfAmerica e叩oyed a postwar economic boom, but血e lack of
Davis
trains emergmg late at night. The sense血at Boston had tumed
ta11 buildings in Boston ‑ SaVe for血e Custom House and Suf‑
its back on血e harbor was reinforced by construction in血e
folk County Cour血ouse towers ‑ Only hinted at some of血e
1950s of血e Central Artery, an elevated highway血at became
PrOblems facing血e city. A 1933 Iわrtme article commented,
a fomidable barrier between血e city and血e waterfront.
%The Bostonian of today has withdrawn from productive
enterprlSe. He has Iost血e active management ofhis industries.
Thus
Boston in the 1950s was a clty that had yet to
recover from血e Great Depression; SurPrisingly,血ough, One
He has Iost po血cal controI ofhis city… ・ He no Ionger leads
Of its leading industries ‑ higher education ‑ WaS gOlng
ei血er in public opinion or in prrvate血ought.
血rough a heady period ofgrow血. The influx ofWbrld W癌II
Said
Boston
1t WaS
had become血e α4 percent clty," a place where families of
Boston
s inab址ty to engage itselfwi心血e modem world
WaS What Frank uoyd Wright was referring to when he advised
in血e mid‑1950s
̀̀Clear out血e 800,000 people and preserve
it as a museum pleCe.
VeteranS had sent universlty enrOllments soarlng, and soon
hundreds of thousands of baby boomers would be entemg
weal血were content to live off血e interest fi.om血eir trusts.
As ifin response to his advice, Boston)s
CO11ege. All institutions ofhigher leammg in Boston were
SqueeZed for space
and none more so血an Boston University.
The Charles River Campus ofthe範ies consisted in
essence of the modem Gothic block housmg the SchooI of
POPulation fell from 801,000 to 697,000 between 1950 and
TheoIogy, Marsh Chapel, the College ofLiberal Arts (now
1960. That exodus was accompanied by血e continung loss of
CAS), and the College of Business Administration (now
manufacturing jobs as fims left血e city ei血er for血e suburbs,
SMG); the Castle and Dum House; and (minima11y) reno‑
Or in many cases,血e Sunbelt. Between 1930 and 1960, eXaCdy
Vated apartment buildings and industrial space. AcqulSltlOn Of
One O衛ce building ofany size was bu址in Boston,血e oldナohn
Hancock Tbwer, OPened in 1946.
PrOPerties on Commonweal血Avenue and Bay State Road
gave some brea血ing room, but it was increaslngly clear血at
Boston still maintained a quirky cham, but signs of dec糾γ
Were all too evident; 1t WaS) m eSSenCe
a nineteenth‑Century
Clty In血e Back Bay, for example, a block from BU
血e Universlty) m Order to fulfill its manifest destiny
WOuld
have to grow upward.
s old build‑
ings near血e Boston Public Library, almost血rty acres ofland
Were taken up by railroad yards. In the heart of downtown,
Scollay Square was a crossroads of commerce and c山ture血at
man could st皿have taken血e MTA streetcar down Brighton
COnSisted largely of burlesque houses) bars) and tattoo parlors.
Avenue喜血e A血e ‑ Waltmg a mOment aS血e driver JOined
Nearby,血e waterfront, OnCe血e heart and so山ofmercan血e
血e Boston Co皿ege line at Packard
Boston, WaS all but silent, Wi血several wharves ‑血ose血at
Were StruCturally sound ‑ PreSSed into service as parking lots.
s Comer. Where血ere are
apartments and a supemarket today,血ere were auto dealer‑
Ships and prlnterS. Offto血e left at Babcock Street, Braves
The EI once co皿ected busy Nor血and Sou血Stations臆nOW
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Student uhion, and two sma皿apartment blocks had given way
fast were血e Hayes Bickford across血e way from血e Armory,
to the construction of the Mugar Memorial Library and a
血e HoJo
s by血e BU Bridge,血e Peter Pan near血e SchooI
high‑rise for血e SchooIs of Law and Education to share. The
OfPublic Relations and Communications (SPRC, nOW
Massachusetts Tumpike was bangmg loudly at血e Univer置
COM), and a halfdozen diners on the way to Kenmore
Slty
Square. Near血e Ranbler dealer were several machine shops,
Campus had been demolished, and tra̲鯖c on Commonweal血
glVmg血e street a ra血er blue‑COllar atmosphere. Most of all,
Avenue was slighdy rerouted for mon血s. The parking facility
s back door ‑ dozens ofbuildings in what is now Sou血
from Brighton Avenue to Blandford Street, Commonweal血
at 700 Commonwealth would soon be buried under an enor‑
Avenue was automobile row
mous residence hall, VArren Tbwers. Looking down Comm
Those years before the Mass Pike Extension were a bit
quleter
tOO. At Comm Ave. and血e BU Bridge
Ouly血e ral‑
road tracks ran under the street near the Peter Fuller Cad皿ac‑
Olds showroom. There was even a small Boston & AIbany
Ave. toward downtown Boston
Our Student could see a sym‑
bol of血e New Boston rising skyward:血e Prudential tower.
(The Pru, juxtaposed wi心血e Sert‑designed Sherman Union,
PrOvided血e cover of血e spring 1963 Bo加nia.)
railroad stop used by commutmg students from Franingham
and Newton. Past血e bridge
Were血e Com‑
Insurance Company had acquired血ose railroad yards in
s student center, and a series ofwooden sheds used
8n血e
1957
Mayorナohn
Hynes
amounced
that
Prudential
Back
Bay and wo山d
build
a complex
simhar
in use to
for science labs. Then血ere were the solid blocks of academic
Rocke則er Center・ The city exempted Prudential from paying
buildings
PrOPerty taX, requlmg instead an annual payment based on a
mons, BU
On血e water side
looking as if血ey had always been血ere, al血ough
血e newest was hardly twelve years old and血e oldest merdy
twenty‑One. Of course
before
mOre Students were driving血an ever
and cars were parked ever)Where) eVen釧ing血e new
Parking garage across from Hayden Hall.
PerCentage Ofincome from血e prQJeCt. Once codified into lavy
血at agreement lessened one of the great obstacles to invest‑
ment in Boston:血e city
Then in 1960 Hynes
SPRC was on血e next block in an adapted warehouse and
OPPOSite was血e modemistic Remington Rand building ( even‑
s sky葛high property taxes.
s successor,ナohn Collins, PrOPOSed a
PrOgram Ofrenewal intended to eliminate血e kind of blight ‑
Sco皿ay Square) for example ‑血at reinforced Boston)s inage as
tual home of血e SchooI of Nursmg and now of Sargent Col‑
a crty on血e road to nowhere. Collins
1ege)・ And at almost every block, a gaS Station. On Bay State
in sound urban planrmg pmciples, but it was also based on an
Road, near血e Lahey Clinic (now血e home of血e SchooI of
astute reading of血e political and economic landscape.
Education), WaS血e year‑Old Tbwers dom for women,血e丘rst
SteP tOWard what Jos6 Sert called血e vertical campus. The Uni‑
s program was grounded
Kevin H. White, mayOr OfBoston from 1968 to 1984 and
now a professor at BU
s Institute for the Study of Political
VerSlty WOuld soon be extending feelers toward Cummmgton
Communication
Street
tory, Partly because of血e election ofCo皿ns as mayor and血e
but for now its Iong
low buildings were occupied by
small manufacturers and distributors.
ready to graduate, in 1964,血ere was actlVlty at eVery COmer.
Cla皿n, Sleeper, and Rich ha皿s were nsmg on血e edge ofNick‑
28
・
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血e old Commons had been replaced by a mqJOr
日
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s his‑
final approval of血e tax agreement血at made血e Prudential
That was血e scene in 1960. By血e time our student was
erson Field
Calls 1960 a watershed year in血e city
=
I
A
Center possible, but even more so because John F. Kemedy
became president.
αNot to take credit away from Collins or anybody else,
White says,
but wi血Kemedy in the White House, Boston
与や
COuld reach into血e federal treasury m a way lt neVer COuld
even make a waterfront park out ofthe railway yard on
be食)re. ,,
Adantic Avenue. Boston) eVeryOne agreed, WaS Waking from
White acknowledges血at Collins
by hiring urban renewal
P10neer Edward Logue to head the Boston Redevelopment
its Iong slumber・ As a middle‑aged matron told her fhend in a
1960s N協T2
rker cartoon
αMy dear, I should wam you・
Au血ority and usmg public investment and tax concessions to
encourage development, Changed Boston,s course forever. The
A ∫そg函qf物e Ni72, Bo鍋肌An momouJpんタqfB伽雇Be男脇∫
BRA emphasized血e invoIvement of血e en血e commumty m
COn∫umed勿′物e Bo加n ♂AlbaりCO伽h照クみ‑ mあl ihe
Plammg
nOtably through community boards and design‑
」 960,劾e初物誘∫ h鋤e bem cha卿d md ihejb幼ndのみoタグha∫ been
rquvenation to血e large amomts offederal renewal money血e
形t♪r ihe勘′私物劾e r勿t〆1cen彩乃紡錐ク細物e Bo駒n P勿b妨
Clty reCeived and changes血at occurred in血e regiv)nal economy.
Lib微勅わの0形一如beヮの物ied 688 Bの広めn $薙eちOme home〆
Let
s not forget,
White continues,
at血e exact moment
When Co皿ns and Logue were startmg things ap
in血e city
less than twenty miles away, along
Route 128, We had血e creation ofa new indus‑
try. That was also ofgreat benefit to血e city.
The economic changes, reglOnally as well
as nationally,血at White refers to worked in
favor of Boston, with its highly skilled work‑
force. EmpIoyment in high‑grade service
activities such as banking, mSuranCe, and fi‑
nance was increasmg. The scope and nature
and timmg Of血e city,s renewal program, by
revitalizing血e downtown core, helped facili‑
tate血e growth of Boston,s new white‑COllar
eCOnOmy・
Almost ovemight
honky‑tOnk Scollay
Square was bulldozed into ob品ion, and while
e,
珍m錫∫ deal妙伽微のde読物勤ud幼めI互畝鋤微me. H多移iタグ
review boards. But White maintains that Boston owes its
debris was still being carted away
COnStruCtion
began on血e buildings that would make up
Govemment Center. On血e waterfront, fed‑
eral money helped血e city to create a new resi‑
dential commumty m the late 1960s, build
hotels and shops血at were linked to Govem‑
ment Center by the restored buildings of
Faneuil Hall Marketplace in the 1970s
and
C乙4佃o妙C4少md o劾er Uあわe巌砂d呼ar物e源
They,ve taken down most of Boston and have put up some‑
as old, the towers and townhouses and former auto show‑
血ing else in its place.
rooms and warehouses ‑ that make up the campus BU has
All血is taking down and puttmg up meant that Boston
grown into.
although it lost 60,000 blue‑COllar jobs between 1960 and
1995, eXPerienced a twofold increase in service activlty
1
000 to 418,000, during that same
)
i
empIoyment) from 204
l
‑
血ose at Boston Uriverslty. Those towers on the skyline ‑血e
1
‑
Period. Or to put it ano血er way, Since 1960 some血irty m乱
‑
‑
dence of血e city,s comeback. They a」so represent血e rediscov‑
‑
SmOkestacks of Boston?s new economy臆are impressive evi‑
血e equivalent of twenty‑血ree Prudential o鉦ce towers.
‑
心on square feet ofnew o能ce space has been b皿t in Boston ‑
亀
‑
ery of血e spirit血at in血e last cen血ry enabled Boston to level
the scale of some proJeCtS CauSed many Bostonians to
its hills and糾in its tidal basins to create land where血e city
WOrry that Boston was becommg Manhattanized. In
COuld grow
・
i
l
)
That spmt is manifest in ano血er proJeCt Of monumental
Public space in血eir proJeCtS and placing greater emphasis on
PrOPOrtions
renovatmg old buildings for new uses.
town血at wi11 a11ow demolition of血e artery血at separates血e
血e construction ofa roadway benea心血e down‑
Kei血Morgan) PrOfessor of art history at CAS, COmPareS
City from its harbor・ When the artery proJeCt is completed in
s treatment of血e Charles River Campus to development
2004, Boston will have a血irty‑aCre SWa血of downtown land
in downtown Boston・ αBU has Iooked for room to grow, and
血at is intended for use prlmarily as pubhc open space.
has blended an antlquarian interest in savmg Old
In a similar vem, COnStruCtion of a federal courthouse on
buildings with the economic and practical advantages that
血e South Boston side ofthe Fort Point Chamel is a slgn血at
COme from renovatmg血ese buildings for new uses. In doing
future growth in the downtown may soon αleap
SO
the University has been a good steward of血e city,s archi‑
Small body ofwater to血e South Boston waterfront, Particu‑
tectura1 1egacy, Particularly in the care and attention it has
larly if as appears likely, a neW COnVention center is built in
glVen tO血e renovation and maintenance of its buildings on
that area.
like the city
Bay State Road.
across血at
It is possible that future development in Boston may take
Morgan sees a similarity in how血e city and BU have each
Place) aS it has in Copley Square, On air rights over血e Mas‑
taken steps to create pedestrian amenities. The barren plazas
SaChusetts Tumpike Extension. This presents some intrlgulng
Of血e 1960s) SuCh as血ose surrounding City Hall and o血er
nodons for BU. Could it be that at some fiユture date the tum‑
downtown o鯖ce towers
are being done over so血at Boston,
Pike, that trench血at runs at an oblique angle past (and be‑
血ough densely developed, retains its human scale. And BU臆
neath) the Charles River Campus, may be covered over wi血
a miverslty hemmed in by the zoommg tra一組c of Storrow
new development? And ifthat occurs, lS it conceivable血at
Drive and the Mass Pike and bisected by the streetcars that
SOmeday Storrow Drive ‑ built on BU land血at was seized
rumble
by eminent domain in 1929 ‑ may be reclaimed for more
and automobifes血at speed, uP and down Common‑
Wea皿Avenue臆has sought to o往iet血e clamor and noise of
Placid use? Such a notion lS Pure fantasy, Ofcourse, but then
血e city wi血a system ofvest‑POCket parks and landscaped areas
again)血e predictions of血at 1963 Bo∫tOma PrObably seemed
血at help u血fy a11血ose elements ‑血e new buildings as well
OVer血e
3O
.
Wl
†
response)血e city began requlmg developers to include more
BU
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B
y血e late 1970s,血e pace ofdevelopment in Boston and
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On New Year
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[砺SeS eXPires. Of a H0Od of competing edi七ions of the tex七,
none will be more eager量y awai七ed皿an the VerSion by BU
SCho音ar John Kidd, Who challenged the received wisdom of
Joycean au七horities and won his case.
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ROBER丁
TAY」OR
N 1985,ナOHN KIDD,
a relatively皿known
yomg scholar, Staked
his reputation on his
belief that a wildly
Praised new edi心on of
ナamesナoyce
s novel
Udy∫∫e∫ WaS fatally
flawed. Only a year beft)re, the
Corrected
[砂∫鈴edited by Hans
Walter Gabler of the University of
Munich, had seemed de丘nitive.
Gabler, Who claimed that his com‑
Puterized approach corrected 5 ,000
errors in the 1961 Random House
edition, had spent as much time on
textual research ‑ SeVen yearS ‑ aS
ナoyce had in composing his master‑
WOrk. Endorsed by血e luminaries of
物e紡Ompr〆あoriのl力脇Kidd at月寂の物傷郷脇ke in
Cambri勿e・ A物0勿Kidd i∫劾e hob碕rrorゲ0物er
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errorち4e巌om Well Jhe gu側杉戸om Ulysses:
Joyce scholarship, this was to have been血e stan‑
dard trade version, but as matters tumed out
1t
WaS mOre like血e Apple of Discord launching血e
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three‑quarterS Of a
PurSuits in Gab‑
Century after its
ler
Publication has been
uncovered star‑
dubbed ̀̀the hot‑
tling evidence that
test literary prop‑
the computerized
er亡y in血e world.
s office, Kidd
U砂∫∫e∫ WaS de氏c‑
耽achers requlre an
tive. Gabler
accurate, depend‑
had relied too
able text for their
heavily on photo‑
s team
Students, but the
StatS, the proJeCt
Publishing history
neglected early
of the novel invoIves
drafts, and only
a maze oferror ex‑
five of U砂∬e∫, di‑
tending from 1922
verse editions had
to the present day.
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Gabler brushed
PaSSionate reviser,
aside Kidd
he continua皿y augmented血e proofe of血at first edition, and
When he died in 194l,血eナoyce Estate and Random House in
s objec‑
tions, and indeed it seemed impossible to cha11enge so presti‑
glOuS a figure and his formidable edition. Never血eless, Kidd
血e United States inherited a textually imperfect work. The
Set about constructmg a CaSe: he challenged Gabler
U.S. copyright) lapsmg on December 3l) W皿pu止血e plug on
Ods. The Geman scholar
Random House
s monopoly: Pengum) Oxford Universlty
StruCt a de五nitive version from a morass of manuscrlPtS and
s me血‑
s synoptlC teXt attemPted to recon‑
Press, and Flamingo/Palladin have already announced plans
WOrking drafts; it endorsed a furiously debated line in the
for fresh editions) but among the welter of competmg Ver‑
novel that takes place during a Shakespeare debate in
Sions
Dublin
it seems certain血at none will be more eagerly awaited
s National Library (
Love, yeS. Wbrd known to all
than the Kidd‑edited U砂∬e∫, for which Norton advanced
men
$350,000. Kidd makes no extravagant daims. Most readers
ers disagreed. The late Richard Ellman,ナoyce
W皿probably not recogmze most ofhis 2,500 changes, but he
血ought血e word should be dea物ra血er血an /0服Joyceans,
intends to produce an edition based on meticulous scholar‑
Who as a rule study literary art, all at once found血emselves in
Ship, aCCePtable to professors, Students, and the common
a perilous minefield of textual criticism.
) as an instance ofナoyce
s a鮪rmative philosophy. O血‑
s biographer,
reader alike.
A dozen years ago, Kidd
s sole contribution toナoyce
Studies (o血er血an a paper delivered in Dub血and reported
in Nセル鋤,eek) had been his doctoral dissertation,
Debt to Rabelais.
ナoyce
s
(ナoyce daimed he had never read Rabe‑
lais, but Kidd demonstrated otherwise.) He was the coau一
心or, wi血Dutch schola.rナos van Meurs, Of力物im Litmvy
nitia皿y, Kdd was dismissed by血eナoyce establishment as
a brash, unfledged outsider. Probably the tummg POmt
工 occurred
No Hits,
when he No
read Runs,
αErrors 5,000
ofExecution
Errors
in the
U躯〆
1984
to the Society for Textual Scholarship in New York.
It was an occasion that would have attracted scant media
Criticわ殉I920‑1980, and in Zurich he became intngued by
attention had it not been heralded by reporter David Rem‑
the numbersナoyce had scribbled on the margins of U砂原eJ
nick in血e We証iク物タOn Po∫t. By血en Kidd
Page PrOOfも・ These had been considered random doodlings,
begun to draw attention as well as bitter partisan contro‑
but Kidd血ought血ey might have a purpose in a novel血at
VerSy・ He published
also had elaborate and submerged codes of scene, time, bod‑
靴rk Reγie13
ily organs, and coIors. Accordingly, he consulted an au血or‑
Estate about Gabler)s command of English; Anthony
1ty: Hans Walter Gabler.
s arguments had
The Scandal of U砂∬e∫
in the Nのa?
qfBoo毎E皿man voiced his doubts to血e Joyce
Burgess took back his words in praise of the Germanic edi‑
Gabler,s credentials were impressive. Not only did he
tion・ The past president ofthe Bibliographic Society of
labor on [砂防e∫, he was respected amongナoyceans for his
America, G. Thomas Tanselle, Sided with Kidd, and at
力me∫]の朽e Archi彫project, a multivolume facsimile of
length Random House
ナoyce
血e white flag of surrender by yanking ltS
s manuscripts. With a $300,000 grant from the Ger‑
s Vintage Intemational hauled up
Corrected
text
man govemment, he was also backed by血eナoyce Estate,
and reissumg血e 196l version of血e text as it existed before
as it was then constituted
Gabler
Since the Estate hoped to secure
a fresh seventy‑five‑year COPyright on its golden‑egg‑
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Amid a lull in血e dispute, and wi心血e encouragement
CD‑RO‖ COU陣丁[!Y O「」O冊議iDD
Of BU,s Roger Shattuck, Kidd left the Universlty OfVirginia
to establish at Boston University the world
s firstナames
ナoyce research center・ Clearly, nOt Only had he triumphed,
but he had performed a service to scholarship. In the long
run, however, the volley and thunder of血e UZ)彬∫ dispute
and its attendant issues of copyright
mOney, and status may
leave a lesser mark on血e culture than Kidd
s role as a cre̲
ator and developer of血e electronic book. For血e center is
yellow dressmggOWn.
From血e screen
a VOice‑OVer eXPlains血at yellow often
SerVeS aS a SymboI ofjealousy, treaSOn, and deceit and that
Judas is sometimes depicted wearing ye1low At血e touch of
a button血e user sees Giotto
Jesus, and Giotto
s fresco ofナudas
s betrayal of
s Judas is caped in yellow [砂的above a11,
is a novel steeped in the imagery ofsound, Written by an
Currently completing perhaps血e most ambitious CD‑ROM
au血or as sightless as血e traditional Homer) but it is now easy
ever attempted.
to grasp that Mulligan is made to playナudas to Stephen
The CD‑ROM currently in the works could live up to
the promise血at it will be the most elaborate hypertext edi‑
Dedalus
sナesus during the heavily血eoIogical丘rst chapter.
In血e new CAS Multimedia Amex
Kdd
s team works
tion of a literary work ever produced. A maJOr undertaking
On the forthcommg 4mot彬d U加e∫ Om′ CD‑ROM, Which
by a team ofgraphic artists) PrOgrammerS
Will incorporate virtually a11 published scholarship on the
and graduate stu‑
dents headed by Kidd and PBS filmmaker Ka血y White
血e
Century,s most influential novel・ The room is book‑1ined;
$500,000 disc adds a dimension to Ub彬∫ and the study of
Kdd has a bibliophile
literature. What Kidd now calls Magic Book TechnoIogy
distinctions of contrastmg editions and devotes a substantial
SuggeStS an emPhasis on technoIoglCal sorcery; however,
血is CD‑ROM may succeed as a new form of educational
s enthusiasm for the五ne pomtS and
Part Of his salary to collection. His library mCludes切ye∫
in many languages and may well be the largest anywhere.
technoIogy because one can
Among its treasures is Joyce
actually read it. Unlike tradi‑
Written agenda for血e struc‑
tional computer‑based for‑
ture of Uウ∫∫e∫.
mats,血e interface resembles
s
I bought
that from the estate ofthe
a book rather than a clut‑
COmPOSer George Antheil,
tered screen・ The topICS are
Whose autobiography was
not a repackaging ofpre‑
existing prmted volumes,
but are edited
amOtated
and illustrated from scratch.
titled Bのd Bの′ qf M物∫ic,
Kdd says.
He considered it
his most precious posses‑
Sion.,, In T切om七Directovy,
Each volume lS PrOduced by
the Dublin street address
scholars and archivists in
directory, Which Joyce used
Order to present an encydo‑
as a prlme reSOurCe, Kidd
Pedic treatment血at extends
beyond血e scope ofbooks or
television alone.
αWhat better way to in‑
丘nds two entries for John
ナoyce, the novelist
s father.
Linking past and present
the Dublin of 1904 with
troduce students to Joycean
the hypertext of today, and
Symbolism血an wi血a blaz‑
Molly BIoom wi心血e fai血ful
ing fresco?
Penelope of Homer, the re‑
asks Kidd. A
Page from物e Boo雇qfKel友
appears on the computer
SCreen. Then the Martello
SearCh center depIoys Joyce
s
own schemata.
But will hosti止ties break
Tbwer ‑ the castellated look‑
Out agam OVer the texts of
out and fort where the novel
the postcopyright era? As
begins ‑ and archival pho‑
Tom Stoppard puts it in
tographs ofナoyce and Oliver
動物ワのみの:
St.ナohn Gogarty.
雪
Where we meet stately, Plump Buck Mulligan dothed in a
The electronic book com‑
bines the pICtOrial and the
Verbal on a disc to glVe its
脇a′tdidy脇do in the
Great W切考M秋]砂ce?
1 mOte Ulysses. W脇t
didy脇do?
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users an experience bo血fac‑
tual and imagmative. Kdd is
demonstratmg血e potential
Ofthis medium in terms of
血e opemng Page Of U恥eJ,
Robe汚物ylor i∫の♪mer
彩uher〆
の汚h寂o名γ at Bo∫一
加n Uni彬狗砂md初物微楊r
COn妙ib勿tOr Jo Bostonia.
sticker. Hofineister has found that ifthe
Seemg the Signs
tester holds one hand out a little far血er, a
Doe∫ Americのn S勿n Lのク砂u物e施療♪r劫∫ter Leami徴?
language ski11s will believe the tester and
Child who has not yet developed complex
Pick血at hand. A child who has developed
to demonstrate that language acqulSltlOn
COmPlex language skills (between the
that developmental pomt at Which
delays m the oral group and the Signed
血ird and four血bir血day for hearing chil‑
a person begins to understand
English group lead to cognltlVe delays
dren and native users ofASL) will hesitate
閏Or mOSt
COmPlex
Children,血eory
thought processes,
ofmind,
OC‑
血at could be avoided血rough the teach‑
over which hand to choose. αThe tasks in‑
CurS SOmetime between the third and
VOIve a thing called
four血bir血days. Tb prove血at language
false belief;
Skills play a direct role in complex cogm‑
Hoffroeister,
tion) Robert Hoffineister, aSSOCiate pro‑
lingulStically are high
explains
and
fessor of developmental studies and
On the developmen‑
COunSeling at the SchooI of Education
tal scale oflanguage.
s
Center for DeafStudies, and a team of
So the daim is that
Other BU researchers are studying lan‑
血eory ofmind is not
guage acquisition in deafchildren in
gomg tO OCCur until
PartnerShip with Professors Peter deVil‑
the kids have this
1iers andナill deVilliers ofSmith College
COmPlex language.
and Professor Brenda Schick ofthe Uni‑
Now the interest‑
VerSity of CoIorado.
mg queStion is, does
the fact that they
groups between the ages ofthree and
eight ‑ deafchildren ofhearmg ParentS
know you,re fooling
them come in before
ゆ
The teams are working with three
‑
trol group); and deafchildren ofheamg
We
time. The researchers are also interested in
Children who are leammg
Signed English, a neWer Slgmng SyStem.
ASL historically has met with strong
mg OfASL as a丘rst language. αThis is a
has shown血at children in the oral group
StrOng Claim,血at language does more or
With English‑language acqulSltlOn delay
less drive theory ofmind,
do not develop these cogn血Ve Ski11s until
ter・
It
says Hofmleis‑
s a strong claim with a testable
OPPOSition, mainly because it is so differ‑
hypothesis) and that,s what we
ent from English) Hoffueister says. In
after right now
the 1960s language engmeerS developed
Signed English
s what
re testmg.
The pilot research
ParentS Who are leammg ASL at血e same
a four血group
re gomg
For his part in the study, Hof蘭oeister
Which is structurally
SeVen Or eight years ofage. αThat
nificant delay,
s a slg‑
he says. ̀̀So血ere are two
PleCeS tO Our reSearCh: first provmg the
hypothesis about language and cognltlOn
WOrks wi血students at血e Leammg Cen‑
and then deciding what
ter for DeafChildren in Framingham
s血e next step.
team want to know ifchildren leammg
Massachusetts. Although English and
Hoffineister believes deafchildren
Who are not leamingASL may be de‑
Signed English develop cognitively at血e
ASL are used at血e school, all血e research
layed in leaming English and in their
Same rate aS血e oral group.
is conducted through signing. (Both of
academic achievement. αIf our hypo血e‑
Ho鮒neister
Sis proves correct, American Sign Lan‑
more like English. Ho範neister and his
though he is not, he is a native user of
finilies wi血heamg ParentS and in pro‑
ASL) aS are many Of血e researchers on his
and ifwe don,t use lt, We
grams for deafchildren
team・) In six private血irty‑ tO forty‑five‑
Slgn誼cant cognitive delay on these
deafchildren leam it naturally in the
minute sessions, the children perform a se‑
kids.
Same Way hearmg Children leam their
ries oftasks, for example,毎the sticker
knit and active deafcommunity does not
game
first language and that prlOr reSearCh
Shows that deaf children are cognltlVely
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guage is valid for use in the dassroom,
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Ho鮒neister says that the dose‑
‑ a Variation on an old favorite, m
PerCeive ASL as isolating for deafchil‑
which the tester holds out both hands and
dren) but that the general public does.
asks血e child to guess which one has血e
Until these di節ering pomtS Ofview are
A
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‑ ‑ ¥ 1 i 〇 〇 〇 ‑ ︼ ‑ ︼ ) 命 ‑ ‑
believmg that
s parents are deaf; and al‑
翁 当
Hoffineister and his colleagues are
StrOng PrOPOnentS Ofteaching ASL to
αintact.
し
time, and血at
﹂
claim is at the same
Wi心血eir parents and at school (血e c?n‑
‑
group); deaf children of deafparents who
are using American Sign Language (ASL)
‑
theycan saylt Or at
the same time? Our
﹂
Who are not using sign language (oral
EXPI.ORATIONS
reconciled
he believes
the battle over
laborious process. we spend so much readyhave a language, SO血ey can leam
teaching ASL in deafschooIs will con‑
time trylng tO teaCh them English that content
tinue. αDeafkids have a problem ‑血ey
they don
Can,t hear・ So leammg English is a very
tion
t leam any content informa‑
and they also leam English
mOre eaSily and earlier.
Whereas childrenwho leamASLal‑
‑ SmhE. Rei砂
have left by keepmg the hair follides in a
Healing Many Heartbreaks
Very aCtive growmg State.
front
On a similar
Holick reports血at studies suggest
̀̀血at we can either delay the onset or ac‑
上セpあde R物u楊杉∫錫n md占めir Grol砂物
Celerate血e regrow血ofhair in mice血at
Stands its causes
says Holick, who is also
get chemotherapy,
leading to similar
researcher promises at least
Chief of血e department of endocrinoIogy,
hopes for human chemo血erapy patients.
And for women who want less facial hair,
the possibility of mending
nutrition, and diabetes and director of血e
闘Ork by
SchooI ofMedicine
theà̀heartbreak
ofpsoriasis,
General Clinical Research Center at the
Holick thinks血at PTHRP can help tum
keepmg hair on balding men and chemo‑
SchooI ofMedicine. αThere are a11 kinds of
Off血e grow血cycle for血ose hair fo皿des.
therapy patients
treatments out血ere, mOSt Ofwhich have
and removing un‑
Wanted facial hair from women.
The substance at the heart ofit all is
And unlike many medications
PTHRP
Serious side effects) with the exceptlOn Of
has shown no side e鮎ects) Holick says.
the active vitamin D, and that doesn
αWe haven,t seen any m mice
t
and血is is
Called para血yroid hormone related pep‑
WOck for everybody,, Now PTHRP seems
a peptide
tide (PTHRP)・ Made by skin cells, it tells
to promise relief It contains chemical sig‑
no more than a couple ofminutes臆SO
血em to stop multiplying, a function dis‑
nals血at shut down skin cell grow血, and
We
COVered about eight years ago. Knowmg
Since psoriasis cells can
t make血e peptide,
Which has a very short halflife,
re pretty con丘dent this will not have
any slgnificant side effects. ,,
血at PTHRP has that function, SayS Pro‑
he says
fessor ofMedicine
ment血em by topically applyng lt, We may
Cutanogen) Inc.
be able to treat psohasis.
ties ofPTHRP. He
DermatoIogy, and
PhysioIogy Michael F. Holick, meanS血e
POSSibility that αwe could regulate skin
αwe think that ifwe can supple「
Likewise) Holick notes
and hair growth. Ifyou mimicked it [to
tain what causes baldness
SeemS tO regulate血e hair fo11ide cycle. So
tion
Conversely) αifyou block its ac‑
yOu COuld potentially stimulate skin
Cell grow血,, and hair follides, Which are
made ofthe same cells.
A nonmalignant disease
Painful
SCaling skin in about ten million
to鉦een million Americans.
It seems to
be genetically related) but nobody mder‑
s received a Small
but PTHRP
Cally for research into its application for
Chemotherapy patients and a grant from
he and other researchers gave a peptide
the National Institutes ofHea皿to study
that blocks the action ofPTHRP to a
血e peptide
breed ofmice whose hair follicles
Sleep
PSOriasis causes
tO PurSue the possibili‑
Business Administration grant specifi‑
nO One is cer‑
inhibit cell growth], yOu COuld treat pso‑
riasis.
Holick has started his own company
s basic mechanism.
The next step is human trials on all
go to
a11 at血e same time, and fomd血at
血ree fronts: PSOriasIS) male pattem bald‑
they αcould stimulate 100 percent of
ness
血ose hair follicles to wake ap and grow
hope to start human trials in six to nine
For men who are begimmg tO bald,
months臆it all depends on funding.,,
We
may be able to maintain what hair they
and female facial hair growth.寝Ⅵた
鵜坤γんr McNiil
Or teenagers who choose work rather
than advanced education, tO minimum‑
More Bucks, Moreナobs
Wage jobs could actually cause an overall
Con励みあ物C脇ワenめml脇om on Mわimm W吻e
increase in empIoyment. Traditional
minimum‑Wage WOrkers may experience
ness or will hire fewer workers, but the
increase slgnificandy wi血a raise in
the minimum wage
COntrary tO
evidence for that effect isn,t large,
Lang
says
adding that an increase in血e min‑
a negative impact
however) because血ey
face increased job competition from
more qualified workers
Lang explains.
Standard economic
部nempIoyment
does nottheory,
appearSayS
to
Kevin Lang) College ofArts and Sciences
imum wage makes Iow‑Wage jobs more
attractive to potential empIoyees. The re‑
so my personal beliefis that overall in‑
PrOfessor ofeconomics. In a study on血e
Sult is more qualified applicants inter‑
CreaSeS in minimum wage do seem to re‑
effects ofthe minimum wage increase to
ested in minimum‑Wage jobs.
$5.15 an hour, Lang and coauthor Shu‑
SeemS tO happen is that the benefits of
lamit Kahn
more and better applicants offdet the
SchooI ofManagement associ‑
ate professor offinance and economics,
What
atlVeS for bo血empIoyees and empIoyers.
αStandard economic theory says that
low‑Wage emPIoyers wi11 go out of busi‑
t large
he adds,
duce income inequality across families.
Lang does caution that even wi血the
increase, a household camot subsist on
COStS Of血e higher wages empIoyers must
minimum wage alone. Many minimum
Pay
Wage WOrkers are in two‑eamer families,
have found血at血e benefits ofa minimum
W?ge increase appear to outweigh any neg‑
αThat substitution isn
,, explains Lang.
Using a theoretical model they devel‑
OPed, Lang and Kahn have found that
he explains
and a slgni丘cant fraction are
teenagers supplementing the family
the attraction ofworkers from higher
Wage SeCtOrS, Where jobs are more scarce,
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Bo∫tOn U加わeクでi砂七C切ri∫ Druり′
Drury, Chris
mの′ be劾e be∫t COl匂e hoc妙pl勿er
Played three seasons at Harvard before
With寝teaching me that hockey has more
in the U荻ted Stの躯. $0つク勿did he
leaving (he since has e竺ed a Harvard
to do with the guy who doesn
pa∬印NHL cの話力m〆mlyeのrゲ
s oldest brother, Who
dipIoma) to :OmPete ln the 1992 and
1994 OlympICS and then JOining the
∫Choolのククd c楊∬?
NHL
Where he currently plays for the
PrOVe,
says Drury. He credits Parker
t have血e
PuCk than with the guy who does.,,
Drury will also continue his work with
BU Strength and Conditionmg Coach
Disney‑OWned Mighty Ducks ofAna‑
Mike Boyle
not血at Chris Drury lS Wheel‑
heim. Indeed, the NHL
ally remade Drury from a sIow, Weak,
ing through center ice like
lanche
血e Tasmanian Devil escaped
Chris Drury since claimmg him in the
畢HE ASTONISHING
THING car‑
IS
from a VAmer Brothers
into a strong
third round ofthe 1994 NHL Entry
rattle offhis weight‑rOOm StatS mOre
s CoIorado Ava‑
Which has owned the rights to
Who in three years has virtu‑
Chubby, but incredibly skilled freshman
fast, lean player who wi11
Or that he stops in a groin‑
Draft, made two offers to the Terrier
eagerly than he
racking spray ofice chips three feet
CaPtain last summer. While Boston Uni‑
Or POmtS. αWe lifted today before prac‑
inside the blue line
VerSlty fans are glad to see him back
tice. I benched 270, Squatted 415, and
most have to ask: Why is he still here?
deaned 260
toon video
Orthat he puts a
360‑degree spm‑O「rama On血e defense‑
My first reaction to that is that 4ere is
man) PuShes away a back‑Checker with
ll talk about his goals
says Drury, Who does not
Say that the combined weight of945
his left arm while holding his stick and
a pretty good place for me to be
the puck in his right, breaks toward the
Drury (CAS,98), Who admits that he
Drury the team
net) Where he drops his left shoulder and
thought seriously about leavmg SChool
and the third strongest Terrier hockey
hammers a second defenseman to the
to slgn an NHL contract,
Player, behind 6‑4II , 214‑POund defense‑
ice, mOmentarily loses his balance, falls
really weren
down) hops up
me out the door.
Sti11 with the puck, and
,, says
but that there
t that many things pushing
Well, nOt unless we count the dollars
a glove save on Drury,s shot to the top
in a league where this season,s average
right comer・ No. The astonishing thing
s strongest forward
man Chris Ke11eher (C4S,9?) and 6‑2 " ,
220‑POund defensemanナeff Kealty
breaks in on the goaltender, Who makes
is that all ofthis happens in the触y‑
POunds makes the 5I101一, 200‑POund
(CAS,9β).
%When he丘rst came here he was what
Player salary topped a million dollars per
I call a Larry Bird‑tyPe Ofplayer,
year・
Boyle. αHe didn
says
t have a lot ofphysical
fourth minute of a midweek early‑SeaSOn
Still, aS Parker asked Drury last sum‑
Skills. Intenslty, COOrdination, COnCen‑
prのctice, When a senior of Drury,s stat‑
mer during a casual conversation over
tration ‑ those made him a great player・
breakfast at T. Anthony,s Restaurant on
What we
Commonwealth Avenue, a block from
more of a Michael Jordan‑tyPe Player.
ure ‑ he was rumer‑uP tO Michigan,s
Brendan Morrison in voting for the
1997 Hobey Baker Award, given annu‑
血e rink:
ally to the best college player in the
for the big job or the little job?
Do they [CoIorado] want you
There,s
COuntry ‑ might reasonably be expected
the catch. Rookie deals in the NHL are
to have his switch set on cruise control,
routinely two葛Way COntraCtS in
SaVmg himself for an important weekend
Which the player receives a
game at Maine
for the grueling five‑
large salary ifhe plays in the
month college season ahead, and for血e
NHL and a much lower salary
big NHL bucks beyond. Forget about it.
ifhe,s sent to the minors. Since
There is no autopilot in the Drury per‑
CoIorado is up to its elbow
SOna. ̀̀He
Pads in quality forwards ‑
s so intense he scares me,
SayS his father, John.
αI
induding a11‑Star CenterSナoe
ve never had a player practice
harder than Chris Drury, and I doubt
I
ve had any play harder,
Sakic and Peter Forsberg ‑
Drury, a Center, may Well have
saysナack
ended up riding the buses wi血
Parker (SMG,6めHbN,97), Who has sent
the Hershey (Pennsylvania)
Bears of the American Hockey
eighteen ofhis players to the NHL in his
twenty宣eur‑Plus years as Terrier hockey
League? thus leavmg him with‑
COaCh・ That Drury lSn
Out a COllege degree, Without
t already血e nine‑
NHL money, and with minor
teenth amazes a lot ofpeople.
αIfyou asked me last sprmg Or eVen
into early summer, I would
WOuldn
ve said he
t be back in school,,, says Ted
league coaching, traditionally
more oriented towards win‑
ning games than developmg
Players. After prudently insur‑
J高揚Falla (COM
67,,90) ;∫ afbmer
ing himselfagalnSt a Career‑
Sports I11ustrated ∫研研ri物m &砂mt
ending mJury, Drury even
pr呼?∬Or 。t Jhe Coll物e qf Comm物n‑
more prudently decided to stay
icatioクちm〆のβeq幼e徹れoク彼rib物tOr tO
in school.
Bostonia.
PHOTOGRAPH!: MO‖TY RAND
負IfI stay here, I
ll im‑
ve tried to do is make him
He still has the great aptitude, but now
he has the strength and speed to do
more with it.
S P O RT S
What Drury did last season was run
the BU stat sheet through a shredder,
best. In his senior year at Fairfield
leading the Terriers in goals (thirty‑
Drury scored thirty‑nine goals and had
eight), POints (sixty‑tWO), POWer Play
twenty‑One aSSists for a total ofsixty
It was quickly followed by one ofthe
goals (nine), Shorthanded goals (four),
and multiple goal games (sixteen).
But the most revealing measurement
OfDrury,s value is this: Boston Univer置
Shoulder to pound pivoting and off‑
balance defensemen to the ice. Once
PaSt the defense, Drury is deft around
the net.伍His fivorite shot is backhand,
POints, WaS the C(mne房‑icut Po∫t Male
top shelf;
High SchooI Athlete ofthe Year, and
Larocque (MET,99), Who has faced
says BU goaltender Michel
became a target for every recruiter in
Drury m PraCtice for血ree seasons,
COllege hockey.
I still can
αThere were a lot of reasons to
Slty WaS O‑6‑O in games in which Drury
Shoot. He
t tell where he
and
s going to
l1 1ook one place and shoot
WaS held scoreless and 20‑2‑6 in games
Choose Boston University,
in which Drury had at least one pomt. As
Drury.
Drury goes, SO gO the Terriers.
Boyle. Ted was working with Mike in血e
I,m shooting until after I
Summer) and Chris could see Ted get‑
SayS Drury, Whose technique was dra‑
The Thin First Line
saysナohn
is a
in an important early‑SeaSOn game at
faster skater than Chris, Chris has those
Maine, matChing the Terriers, then
great hands
number three in the nation, agamSt
Their father says that while Ted
says parker of
his cocaptains.伍With them, We
re∴a
ve let it go,
matically demonstrated November 8
tmg StrOnger.
man] Chris Kelleher coming back, We
αI don,t want them knowmg Where
One ofthe main ones was Mike
Without Chris Drury and [defense‑
might have struggled,
another.
perhaps partially a gift
from his father, a former lacrosse mid‑
the number‑Six Black Bears
StrOng team・ The line lS JuSt that thin・
fielder at the Universlty Of Pemsylva‑
beaten BU in all three regular season
As it was last season in the 3‑2 Terrier
nia. As for Chris
meetings in the 1996」97 season. The
upset of defending national champIOn
thinks it may have its orlgmS in the
Michigan in the NCAA Toumament
backyard and driveway ofthe family
game also matched Drury with another
leading contender for the Hobey Baker
Semifinals (Drury set up the wiming
home
Award, Maine forward Steve Kariya.
goal) and the 4‑2 loss in the finals to
ナim (a former hockey player at Lake
Drury would win the Kariyan War・
relgnmg national champ North Dakota.
Forest), WOuld play ft)Otball, Street
Though BU led 2‑O late in the second
While Drury was the early‑SeaSOn
hockey, and basketball with Chris
favorite to win the 1998 Hobey Baker
Chris would get his head handed to
OutShot
him.
When Parker sent out Drury and Albie
Award
it
s the quest for the NCAA
s intenslty, his father
Where Ted and a middle brother,
αand
ナohn Drury is still amused at the
ChampIOnShip that is the most naggmg
memory ofa bruised, bloodied, but
PleCe Ofun丘nished business.
relentlessly competitive Chris draggmg
̀̀After the loss to North Dakota,
himselfin for supper・
great
Connell (CAS
99) to help kill the
Penalty・ With l‥09 to play, Drury took
Connell and broke in
alone on Maine goalie Alfie Michaud.
On a Platter
Drury faked a forehand shot, CauSing
Today lt is Chris who is handing oppo‑
Michaud to drop to the ice) Whereupon
nents their heads.
Drury drew the puck to his backhand
says Parker.
αWimmg the Hobey Baker would be
but the national champIOnShip is
much more ofan incentive,
O
Who were being
faced a Maine power play
a pass from O
Drury wanted to go back out and play
another game,
Period) the Terriers
Who had
says Drury
Seen through the bars ofhis cage‑
Side and tossed it high into the net
I was a freshman when we w(in it in
Style face mask
1995. But I was JuSt a rOle player then.
a fast‑breaking Drury is a
and his father,s slightly hooked nose
COmbine to glVe him a look ofraptor‑
in the stamng rOle鵜When he pitched
ial intenslty・ Pity the defensemen and
ultralight aluminum stick shaft
which he fits a custom‑made wooden
負He,s hard to stop because he always
keeps his feet moving,
national attention via a feature story m
defenseman Dan Ronan (COM,99).
says Terrier
Some guys will stop and glide just
箪0碩mu∫妙ated.
before they make their move, but Chris
says
keeps commg at yOu
Drury, Who starred in baseball and
hockey at Comecticut
you before you
s Fairfield Prep.
and he
s on top of
re ready for him・,, Ronan
SayS Drury lS eSPeCially deadly in
the tri‑
But a broken wrist sustained in a hockey
angle ‑ that area between the defense‑
game in his junior year meant he couldn,t
man
Play baseball that season・ αThe surgery
WaS SO delicate that doctors wouldn,t
even let me JOg)
.
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ll pass or
Physical style ofplay.
Will Drury,s intenslty and production
be enough to bring the Terriers their
fifth NCAA champIOnShip when the
tournament comes to Boston,s Fleet‑
Center Apri1 2 and 4?
αAsk me after the Beanpot,
Chip away every day But I
Mostly I just try to
get an inside step and lower a shoulder,
i
SOn, mute and expensive testimony to
his grinding
Drury・ αRIght now we
SayS Drury, Who often uses that lowered
N
blade. He estimates that he breaks about
Stickhandle through there. He can make
And fed worse.
months. It was血e worst time ofmy life.
38
s skates and his stick. He
A
into
丘fty blades and six or eight shafts per sea‑
you look bad.
he says. αA山I did was
lie on the couch for two and a half
s sleight ofhand is aided and
a songbird.
feat that brought 12‑year‑Old Drury to
my 〕unior year in high school,
Drury
COnSiderably abetted by his use ofan
goalies. Drury lS On them like a hawk on
ChampIOnShip over Taiwan in 1989, a
αI wanted to be a baseball player until
), Silencing the
ending competition for the evenmg.
ChampIOnShips are nothing new to
team to the Little League Wbrld Series
backhand, tOP Shelf
CaPaClty CrOWd of 5,200 and effectively
Drury, Who was also a role player 「 aS
his Trumbull, Comecticut, baseball
(
frightenmg Sight. Black, bushy eyebrows
says
re JuSt trymg tO
ll tell you one
thing. Wiming a national champIOn‑
Ship would make it a lot easier to say
goodbye.
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T圏RR案ER皿LK
BYJEAN HENNE」LY KEI丁H
muddy field in Hanover, New Hampshire,
FALL SpoRTS
agamSt Dartmouth,s Big Green on No‑
HI GHLI GHTS
Vember 23 (Dartmou血5, BU l).
擬
駿繋唖e fleet‑footed, adaptable men,s soc‑
鱗
cer team had a slippery season with
n its third year, the women?s soccer
態 team made a strong showmg, defeat‑
mg tWO COnference opponents to secure
early snows and wintry weather this year・
the number‑tWO Seed in the team
Because snow and sleet rendered natural
America East Conference toumament
s first
grass fields unplayable for the Long Is‑
and eaming a 13‑7‑l record (7‑2 Amer‑
land Universlty enCOunter On November
ica East). Head V恥men
14, for the first time in血e season血e Ttr‑
Nancy Feldman says the team, ranked
riers met opponents on Nickerson Field
number five in the conf料ence at the end
s
s Soccer Coach
artificial turf‑ frozen and slick ‑ and
Oflast season
PreVailed
SeaSOn) Playing competitively agamSt SeV‑
Shutting out LIU l ‑0・ America
had bright moments this
East Conference champIOnS for血e four血
eral NCAA‑Caliber teams and rising to
Straight year,血e Ttrriers eamed a 14‑5‑2
number十WO rank in America East. αThe
record
third year is critical for a new team,
wimlng血e last eight games ofthe
says
SeaSOn・ For血e fi剣I COnSeCutive year and
Feldman. αWe are on track with a good
the tenth time since 1985, the Terriers
COre grOuP Ofplayers who became be‑
COntended in the NCAA Division l soccer
1ievers in themselves this year・ We are
toumament ‑ this year on a snowy,
ready to take it to the next level.
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October 18 and 19, and the
Boston University Friends of Crew took ad‑
Universlty
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for a variety of festivities. On Saturday
ever made,
said Rick Pitino,
mommg, October 18, alumni and丘iends
Pass
OaChing basketball at Boston
Vantage Of血e extended sched山e to ga血er
Cheer on the Terrier men,s basketball
guest speaker at血e BU Basketba皿Tip‑Off
team
CrOWded血e BU Boa血ouse dock for the
Dinner at血e George Sheman Union on
COaChed by 1996‑97 America East Coach
WOmen
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Tuesday, November ll. Two hundred
Ofthe Year Dennis Wblff A season pass
in honor ofthe 199l and 1992 National
twenty〇五ve friends and fans attended the
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ChampIOnShip W〕men
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defending America East champs,
$100‑a‑Plate dimer to hear Pitino, nOW
Case Center regular season 1997‑98
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home games. For more information and
honor ofEli Lipcon働4G,67らgenerous
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Of his counterrevolutionary grandfa血er,
Whose free血inking kept him in trouble
Luoyong VAng
with the Chinese authorities. Excluded
from schooIs after the角皿1 grade, ten‑
HOW does an actor stay fresh
year‑Old Luoyong was sent to work on
and energized for the same
血e railways, breaking and hauling rocks.
role in eight shows a week for
His luck changed at age eleven when he
three seasons with no dosmg ln Sightさ
accompanied a丘iend to an audition with
Luoyong Wang (S且A移9) says,
血e Hubei Shi Yan Beijing Opera School,
SaVe yOurSelflike a snake.
You
Having
intending only to offer moral support.
Played血e Engineer, a leading role in
Serendipitously, VAng was invited to
the hit musical M壷Sa勿0狗at the
audition too, and mlike his friend, WaS
Broadway Theatre since 1995
admitted, although because ofgovem‑
Wing
SayS he lives a low‑keyed life aimed at
ment suspICIOn Ofhis grandfather, he was
keepmg him ̀̀in neutral
Placed on stricdy supervised probation.
off‑Stage tO
COnSerVe his power for performance.
During his years wi心血e company, he
His daily reglmen includes an alcohol‑
COnCentrated on acrobatic actmg and on
free diet limited mostly to vegetables
trammg his changmg adolescent voice.
and freshwater丘sh ‑ aVOiding food
Viewmg創ms made in血e West, Which
With αtoo much fiery yang energy
‑
WaS forbidden to civilians during血e rev‑
along wi血showers) breathing exercises
Olution) WaS Part Ofhis actlng education.
Chinese meditation, reView of selected
So struck was he wi血ナulie Andrews
Chinese proverbs, and massage. He says
Perfomance in Ihe Somd qf脇∫ic血at
s
his trainmg aS a yOungSter in his native
he detemined to act in V栃stem‑Style
China with血e Beijing Opera was
musicals and to leam a
負absolutely brilliant
in honing a ̀̀ques‑
more realistic,
SPOntaneOuS aCtmg teChnique.
At血e
tion‑VerSuS‑COndusion energy, bringmg
end of血e revolution, he auditioned,
you to the stage with bright curiosity
along wi血80,000 o血ers, for the resur‑
East and West merge in Wing
s act‑
L被り0ク物脇穆On Broadつ砂型のJ物e
E物ク雛er ;n Miss Saigon・
rected Shanghai Drama Institute, WaS
mg. He attributes his selfdiscipline and
initia皿y reJeCted, PerSuaded a staff mem‑
PrOgramS reJeCted him because ofhis
endurance)血e αbones
ber to hear his ZZirmlet monoIogue, and
lack of English, Boston Universlty
Prevailed・ He eamed a B.A. in actmg
admitted him and customized his pro‑
血at support
him as actor, tO his trainmg for血e com‑
Pany,s highly stylized productions. But
he says lt WaS the freedom ofactmg m
血ere and became an assistant professor・
Shakespearean roles have slgni丘cantly
gram to strengthen his English. Whng
SayS, ̀̀The language seemed impossible,
the United States) wi血out political cen‑
advanced his career・ Seeing him play
but血ere are many ̀impossible
SOrShip,血at enabled him to leam
Hamlet in a Shanghai Drama Institute
血at someone did.
improvisation) tO gain his actmg αflesh.
PrOduction at an actmg COnference in
Boston Universlty my home. They took
Belgium, Kisten Linklater, a VOice
me in when I was homeless.
teacher wi血Shakespeare and Company,
Cially credits Professor ofTheater Arts
His joumey from actmg in血e Peo‑
Ple
s Republic of China during the
He adds,
things
I consider
He espe‑
Cultural Revolution to stamng On
offered to work with him in Boston.
Broadway was arguably epic. Struggle,
In 1987, at age tWenty‑eight, he arrived
endurance, drive, talent, and luck each
in血e United States knowing α丘fty
and helped arrange his program, and
Played a part. As a child Wang was
WOrds of English, half of血em swears.
Associate Professor ofTheater Arts (now
inspired by血e persistence and courage
Al血ough o血er ma〕Or university血eater
retired) Bob Chapline for reassuring him
(now Emeritus)ナames
Tim
NichoIson,
Who encouraged him to come to SFA
A L U M
寒
N A R萱
E S
and creatmg SPeCial vowel‑SOund lan‑
and actmg abilities, Wang lS Ventumg
guage exercises, Which Wing still uses.
He also leamed from many others while
into film and television as well. He stars
Emmy for Outstanding Made‑for‑Tele‑
in物e Piのno Tをacbe考made in China and
vision Movie and the President
at BU, induding a little girl for whom he
entered in the Shanghai Film Festival in
from the Academy of Ttlevision Arts
October. He wants to see more Asian
and Sciences for the program that
StOries being told in America and will
expIores social or educational issues.
baby葛Sat, Who corrected him:
it
s ̀father,
Luoyong,
not ̀fadder.
In Boston, Wang watched a lot of
also consider Chinese films and proJeCtS.
actors work and began gettmg PartS,
He says,
relying on monologues from ELmlet
limit
and Romeo mdhliet for auditions, then
horizon.
I try to push myselfto血e
‑ Which appears nowhere on the
SyPhilis,血e創m also took top honors‥ an
s Award
best
The docudrama centers on V研oodard
VentureS tO Alabama
s Tuskegee Hospl‑
tal in 1932 to care forpoor black men
laboriously memorlZmg the landed parts
a剣icted wi血syphilis and becomes
in English. At Wheelock Theatre he
reluctantly collusive in an inhumane
Played血e title role in物e Kiク物md J
s
Character, nurSe Eunice Evers, Who
Thrice Emmy‑ed
govemment study ofhow血e disease
After eammg an M.F.A. at the School
runs its course in black versus white
for the Arts in 1989, he took the role of
POPulations. Wbodard movmgly con‑
Song Liling in血e national tour ofM
VeyS Evers
s guilt‑ridden conflict.
Wbodard won her first Emmy in 1984
B勿tte7物(West Coast premiere, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival) , with Chapline
as Best Supportmg Actress in a Drama
COaChing him on ̀̀every word.
Series for her portrayal on NBC
His
s Hill
reglOnal credits also include功e丁砺mのn
$妙eet Blu鋤of a grleVmg mO血er whose
脇rrior in its world premiere wi血
Child is killed by a police o飴cer, and
Berkeley Repertory and on a tour that
her second in血e role ofa rape victim
included BU
on L.A. La揚She has had numerous
s resident HuntmgtOn
Other Emmy nominations, mduding for
Theatre Company.
In 1989 he began teaching at血e
her stamng rOle on St・ Eんe励ere, and
Universlty OfWisconsin, Milwaukee; in
received an ACE award for her powerful
1992 he was cast as血e Engineer for血e
Performance as Wimie Mandela in
丘rst national tour of M諒S&砂om′, Which
HBO,s A4&ndeんを. She costars with VⅣes‑
involved a 1600‑mile commute to
ley Snipes and Maya Angelou in Snipes
Chicago until his sabbatical time was
PrOduction ofDomn ;n zbe Del幼for
used up, When he left the show to honor
Showtime.
his commitment at Wisconsin血rough
Wbodard
s career encompasses血e‑
1994. The next year, tO his surprlSe, he
ater, television, and big‑SCreen WOrk,
WaS Ca11ed again for M諒Sの勿on,血is
With an Academy Award nomination
time to Broadway. He is the first Asian
for Cro∬ Creek and a Golden GIobe
actor in血e lead male role, eammg
nomination for P楊∬ion RE in 1984. She
much critical acdaim. Wites Peter
Marks in血e Ne研靴r雇T?m鍔Wang
A狗e l砺oda′楊in her Em解りAlクの楊‑
s
7
iタグmク物grOk ;n Miss Evers
Boys.
portrayal is nothing less than a daz‑
Ofhis
has starred in Paramount Pictures, S放r
乃eh:彫徹Co海伽ち血e血riller Primのl
彫ar opposite Richard Gere, and Spike
Lee
Zling reintexpretation that raises血e
level ofthe entire show ‥. the extraor‑
dinary Mr. VAng leads the way.
s
A慧
Wbodard (S月4
74) has gar‑
⊥ │nered her血ird Emmy, this time as
s family drama Croo母御amOng
many o血ers. Her SFA actmg teaCher,
Professor Emeritus William Lacey,
former student, Professor Emeritus
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Mniseries
describes V恥odard as having
Wi11iam Lacey says,
for her role in HBO NYC
ition and a divinmg rOd to血e tru血ofa
He
s wonderful.
s Arfu助?e狗}
deep mtu‑
He brings the emotional athleticism of
Bの姐Based on血e notorious govem‑
character.
Chinese theater at its best.
ment medical study at Tuskegee Univer‑
Award wimer for Distinguished Service
Sity血at wi血held treatment fi.om unsus‑
to the Profession and a 1995 School for
PeCtmg Afhcan‑American men with
the Arts Alumni Award winner.
With a strmg Ofsuccesses and English
fluency added to his smgmg, dancmg,
Wbodard is a 1987 Alumni
Aつ砂a
James E. Bauer (CAS
8I) ofLivermore,
mnク
ciation ofWbmen Business Owners. She is
Georgiana Jagiello (C4S
49, HbN.
79) of
Caff , aSSistant professor of marine science
One Offive female business owners
at血e College ofW皿am and Mary, reCeived
nized for血e grow血and positive impact of
Cians and Surgeons Distinguished Service
the Society of血e AIumni
their businesses, COmmunity invoIvement,
Award at Columbia University
Ship Award. The award recogmzes younger
and persona.⊥ and professional activities.
Physicians and Surgeons May commence‑
fac山ty members for excellence in teaching.
Cynthia is president and founder ofMarket‑
ment. The award, Which is the highest
Place 2000, a COnS山ting firm servlng血e
honor glVen by the college, reCOgnized her
Sand「a Bertman (髄D
s Alumni Fellow‑
64) ofNewton,
recog‑
Pleasantville, N.Y., WaS aWarded the Physi置
s College of
Mass., reCeived血e 1996 National Center
retail and consumer product industries.
COnthbutions to scientific research, her din‑
Award from the National Center for Death
John H.
ical expertise, and her many administrative
Education in recogn血On Of αher pIOneemg
N.C., WaS PreSented wi血a citation ofmerit
roles at血e college and university. Geor‑
efforts in the field of dea.th education for the
for distinguished service by血e Carolina
glanaWaS a BU trustee fi.om 1979 to 1988.
PaSt 30 years.
Council of Churches when the House of
Steven Kane (COM71) ofCranston, R.I.,
Delegates met in Greensboro, N.C., in Ap血.
received the outstanding faculty award from
ratmg m山timedia presentations in her
Steven B. Dan (CAS
the University ofRI10de Island
efforts to dispel taboos and prejudices asso‑
received a medal from Con坤の初脇rlh
Ciated wi血dea血and dying.
magazine and the Smi血sonian Institution
teaching, Steven has a prlⅤate PSyChotherapy
for designmg and developmg COmPuter
PraCtice in Cranston and is director ofclini‑
ities at血e Universlty OfMassachusetts
SOftware that performs statistical analysis on
Cal education a.t the Interfaith Counseling
Medical Center in Wbrcester, Mass. She is
hospital blood cell analyzers around the
Center in Providence. In his
also血e au血or ofthe book劫ci穆Dea′初
WOrld. The res山ts of血e analysis indicate to
time
I海砂h∫勿hあのnd hterヮm房on∫.
health‑Care PrOViders the precision ofthe
forthcommg.
HenI.y M. Biagi (C4S
instruments
John J. Mah看mann (髄Å
She is noted for her imova‑
tive approach to dea血education,
incorpo‑
Sandra is the
director of血e Program in Medical Human‑
6ちGRS
66) ofBrook‑
1ine, Mass., is the food service director for
Jack
Crum (STH
75) ofLittleton,
86) ofMiami, Fla.,
performances.
John Davis (G鋤
8夕, COMウ1), OfMilwau‑
s College
Of Condnumg Education. In addition to
limited spare
he also writes; he has four articles
62,
63) ofRes亡on,
Vらreceived an honorary Doctor ofMusic
Somerville Public SchooIs. In October 1996
kee, Wis., WaS honored with a Diamond
degree from Duquesne University in recog‑
his division was presented wi心血e regional
Award at血e second amualナoumal Broad‑
nition of his distinguished contributions
Best Practices Award in血e category of
cast Excellence in Sales Awards Presentation
to music and education. Throughout his
Community InvoIvement and/or Service.
inナ山y. The Diamond Award recognizes the
14 years as executive director ofthe Music
The award recogmzes his efforts
highest achieving television account execu‑
Educators National Conference, the world
Viding Somerv田e and surrounding commu‑
tives. John has been account executive at
largest arts education organization,ナohn
has vlgOrOuSly advocated the essential role
for pro‑
nities wi血healthy, nutritious meals through
Milwaukee
Various nutrition programs.
Adele Siegel Glasser (COM
Å1an R. Booth (GRS
Ga., WaS Selected as a member ofOutstand‑
GIem F. Peterson (C4S
1ng Atlanta. The amual award is presented
a partner in the Clifton law firm ofPeterson
by Mayor Bill Campbell to 10 people under
& Peterson, WaS aWarded the New Jersey
62
64) ofA血ens,
Ohio, a history professor at Ohio Universlty,
received血e university
s distinguished teach‑
s WTM手TV since 199 l.
s
8β) ofAtlanta,
of music education.
7Z) ofClifton, N.J
mg aWard・ Alan, a SPeCialist in bo血African
the age of 36 who have made significant
Commission on Professionalism,s 1997
history and the history of esplOnage, has
COntributions to their communi亡y.
Professional Lawyer ofthe Year award.
been teaching at Ohio since 1964.
Lester E. Goodridge,申. (SEDt5ゲ65) of
Suzame P獲unkett (COM92) ofNew York,
Edward Bryant (COM50,
Acton, Mass. , reCeived an Outstanding
N.Y., WaS aWarded Best ofShow in the New
5」, SED,53) of
Ipswich, Mass., reCeived血e Coast Guard
Educator award from Salem State College
ナersey Press Photographers Pictures ofthe
RccrⅢtmg Service Ribbon in recogn血On Of
for his achievements and contributions to
Year competition. She also received丘rst
his
education. He is retired now, after working
Pla.ce in the general news, neWS PICture
signi丘cant contribution to Coast Guard
as chiefofthe Library and Information Ser‑
StOry, and personal vision categories. Susan,
Edward was elected president ofthe North
Vices Division at the U.S. Army Intelligence
Who is the staffphotographer at the J訪ey
Shore Guidance Directors Association.
School at Fort Devens. He also is a past
Jbumのlinナersey City, N.J
Krisanne Bursik (GRS,82,,86) ofLexing‑
PreSident ofthe SED Alumni Board and a
for the Associated Press in New York.
ton, Mass., is director ofthe women,s stud‑
member ofthe National Alunni Council.
Russel菓Roberts (捌
ies program at Suffolk University. She was
Bemhard H鞘1a (C4$t±3) ofValpariso,
Mass. , reCeived a Guggenheim fellowship in
PrOmOted to full professor in the spmg.
Ind., WaS honored as Performer ofthe Year
Painting. His travel plans includeナapan, but
Krisame received Su批)lk
by the Finlandia Foundation at FimFest
he will be based in New York and Boston.
recruiting
for over 20 years. In June
s Outstanding
Fac山ty Member ofthe Ytar award for 1997
USA
in recogmtlOn Ofher commitment to
lectures he has grven on血e Fimish people
97 in June. The award recognized
also freelances
9与) ofCambridge,
Donald T. Shil.e (SMG,5I, LAW53) of
Allentown, Pa., a retired senior vice presi‑
undergraduate teaching.
and the Fimish language. Bemhard has
dent ofAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.,
Cynthia R. Cohen (劫脇㍗77) ofMiami, Fla.,
Written eight books, the most recent of
received an honorary Doctor ofLaws
received a Recogn血On
Which, F荻n F紗殊WaS Published by Pen五eld
degree at Muhlenberg College
Press in J.une.
COmmenCement.
97 Award fi.om血e
greater Miami chapter of血e National Asso‑
s May
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Persian De看ight ‑ Babak Bina
(MET汐のradiates a sense ofwell‑
being. Is it because Lala Rokh, the
Persian restaurant he co‑OWnS and
manages on Boston
s Beacon Hi11,
has got staid New Englanders to nix
Clam chowder in fivor of&勿寂r a
a腸(For the uninitiated, that
s a tart,
Semisweet soup offresh herbs, dried
Plums, and grains.) Is it because he
has unlimited access to the ambrosial
rosewater and cardamon pastries
Created by his sister, ChefAzita Bina‑
Seibel? Or is it because血e siblings
recently sold their older restaurant,
Azita) enabling Bina to take offhis
丘rst Saturday in ten years? (A bud‑
ding golffinatic, he admits he needs
lots more practice血an he could
A.2;i錫Bim‑Seibel 。解d Baba雇Bi紗a
SqueeZe in till now)
Perhaps, like血e food ofhis native
Iran, his contentment consists ofa
to our heritage
Pinch of血is and a pinch of血at, all
brought in血eir mo血er, Aghdas Zoka‑
says Bina. The siblings
in perfect proportions. αThe beauty
Bina, nOW enSCOnCed in Boston
Ofour food is血at it should never be
Bay, tO COnSult as血ey developed the
too much ofone血ing,
menu ofclassic Persian dishes served at
says Bina.
αIt has to be血e mamage Ofdifferent
mgredients, and that
s where the ski1l
Ofyears and years comes in. Ybu have
to know how to blend血e compo‑
nents; it
s almost chemistry. Ifyou,re
tastlng tOO muCh ofone血ing
血en
it,s wrong.
Lala Rokh; just back from a trlP tO
Turkey and Iran, She shared her stash
Ofculinary staples: rOSe Petals
Plums
dried lemon
血e 1970s,血e future restaurateurs
attended Boston University (Azita
Studied intemational relations, but
Sa飽on
garlic marinated
in vinegar for血irty‑five years.
We use
recIPeS血at have been handed down
from generation to generation
Afier immlgratmg from Iran in
s Back
mother and now to my sISter)
tO my
Bina says.
Since opemng in fall 1995, Lala Rokh
(which means
tulip cheeks,
a Persian
endearment) has been a jewel in the
StOPPed short ofgraduation), aS did
Clty,s culinary crown, and it
血eir sister, Mandana佃AS,81), Who
raves from the national press as well.
OPted for a career in economics. Azita
̀̀No one else does this cuisine
OPened one ofthe city
s first Nor血‑
em Italian restaurants, Tbscano, in
血e 1980s; Babak Bina JOined her to
level, in血e country,
s gamered
at血is
says Bina (ex‑
hibiting a bit ofthe marketing flair he
Picked up at BU).
We have taken this
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PeOPle and programs that we
Dear Fellow
read about in the pages ofBo∫tO‑
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nia′ Only scratch the surface of
the deep and rich commitment
that has been part ofthe Univer‑
as president ofthe
BUA
Slty)s mission since its inceptlOn・
One ofthe great JOyS I take in
and a very dif
圏his is ficult
my丘rst
letter
one to
write.
my lnVOIvement with BU is to
The unanimous decision made
discover more about what makes
by the Board ofTrustees to
it such a special place. With that
eliminate football at Boston
in mind
University has been hard for
Ofour BUA vice presidents with
I have challenged each
SOme Ofour fellow alumni to
the mission ofinvoIving more of
accept. For more than thirty
you with our alma mater.
years
The next two years should be
I have enJOyed cheermg
on the Terriers on more Satur‑
interestmg, Challengmg, and
day aftemoons than I can
With your support
remember, and thus I can under‑
Iook forward to meetmg many
Stand the disappomtment Ofthe
Ofyou on campus or at local
fans
alumni functions. Once you
the football players, and
their families. Whether or not all
alumni agree with this decision,
fi.uitful・ I
experience the diverslty Of
today
Cated to the development ofthe minds
s BU, yOu Will understand
Why hundreds of alumni accept leadership
Or this process, We CamOt allow our emo‑
and spirits ofits students. And although
tions to override the achievements and
We may nOt always agree with every direc‑
POSSibilities of our Boston Universlty
tion our alma mater takes, We benefit from
in one program or another・ I hope that
Our COntinued association with a world‑
you will jom uS.
The size
diversity
and dynamic nature
Ofour alma mater ‑ Which I believe con‑
Stitute its greatest strength ‑ PreClude
responsibilities and thousands partlCIPate
Class universlty・
Sincere
It is unfortunate that some alumni are
that any decision wi11 be met with univer‑
not more aware ofthe many fine initiatives
Sal agreement. However, We muSt remem‑
that BU faculty, Students, Staff; and alumni
ber that Boston Universlty is, first and
undertake that bene五t our communities,
Tino Galluzzo (COM,6夕)
foremost, an aCademic institution dedi‑
locally nationally, and intemationally. The
President
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lies and friends. Kohn then told the
audience, ̀̀The Center for Psychiatric
Training for the Future
Rehabilitation offers hope; Traimng for
血e Future nourishes血at hope.
Parent
Thomas Oliphant thanked the αamazmg
ipper Gore (C4$
70) spent a
Future was initiated at Sargent College
s
Slgnificant part ofher Novem‑
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation by
ber 12 visit to her alma mater
graduates
for demonstratmg αguts,
fortitude, and communlty SPirit. Student
Program Director Larry Kohn in 1993
SPeaker Arthur
Chatting quietly wi血some special stu‑
and developed in partnership with IBM.
received a standing ovation for an
ナoe
vyse &4R,83)
dents" Keynote speaker at the Trainlng
It is supported by a broad coalition of
account of his odyssey from undergradu‑
for血e Future graduation ceremony, She
COrPOrations , foundations, individuals ,
ate days,血rough years grappling wi血
had asked to meet the program,s gradu‑
and the federal govemment.
SeVere depression, tO a hard‑eamed
ates. And so she sat at a student terminal
At血e aftemoon graduation, Provost
̀̀renewed hope, Vision, dignlty, and self‑
in the computer lab at 930 Common‑
and Dean ofArts and Sciences Dennis
COnfidence.
Wealth Avenue to view血e class
Berkey and Sargent Dean Alanナette
Future
greeted graduates and their proud fami‑
OPen‑door policy and the students
s video,
PreSented by program instructor Lisa
Bellafato, and then visited with
He called廿ainmg for血e
top」light,
pralSmg血e staff
ation ofan empathetic
s
cre‑
Camg
Students individually, discussmg
COmmunity.
血eir new computer expertise
Well up from a very deep place in
and their job goals.
Hope began to
each ofus… ・ This program
The fourteen students, rang‑
WOrks; I am living proof
vyse
ing from twenty to fifty years
is now a teaching assistant in
Old) al1 1ive with severe psychi‑
Trainmg for血e Future.
atric illness. They had spent an
Gore, Who credits BU with
intensive year leammg industry「
kindling her ongomg mtereSt in
Standard computer use and
PSyChoIogy during her mder‑
Other o飴ce and personal skills to
graduate years, SPOke of strides
PrePare themselves for meanmg‑
being made nationally in treatmg
ful, COmPetitive employment.
mental ilhess as a part ofillness
For some the task had seemed at
in toto. Describing the丘ght to
丘rst impossible: tO attend dasses
eliminate bias agamSt血ose with
regularly, Iet alone leam chal‑
mental illness as αone ofthe last
lengmg material
SOCial revolutions,
eVen When
Gore said,
Human beings have a right to
dealing with illness and medici‑
nal side effects. They prevailed.
develop to血eir full potential. It
And thanks to their achieve‑
is cruel to deny ajob on the basis
ments and the energetic net‑
ofmental illness.
WOrking in Boston
Trainmg for the Future a ̀̀truly
s business
COmmunity by job developer
She called
Creative and imovative pro‑
Robert Salafia) all血e graduates
are either in job intemships or
gram
and applauded血e pro‑
gram
s corporate sponsors. Tb
Startmg jobs at U.S. Trust, Lotus
the graduates she said,
Development, Boston Univer‑
have glVen meanmg tO many.
Slty, the March ofDimes, the
h the刀傷im′i御重r物e劫t幼彬CO御物杉r揚bprior to
Jewish National Fund, and other
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h yα徽穆er
PeOPle notice that.
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The Paratores live in Boston? but spend
のnd力∫印h
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放脇tore
toumg heavily across血e United States
pe郷)r筋力r
and Europe) wi血occasional trips to Asia
Arth物r彫edhr
and Australia. They retum to Boston
prior to their
Universlty Whenever possible , VIS血ng
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dasses and taking part in performances.
deb物t.
They recently recorded a CD at血e
Universlty
tO be released in血e spmg;
PrOCeeds will go to血e scholarship
SIBLING HARMONY
founded in their name in 1992. αBU
WaS a Very lmPOrtant Part Ofour musical
development
are not the kind ofpeople who prefer to
Sider ourselves musical ambassadors for
作上祖
Play toge血er ‑ they,re soIo‑minded
the school.
(馳
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says An血ony. αⅥたcon‑
iano duo Anthony Paratore
66) andナoseph Paratore
7O) speak the way they
血eir thoughts and voices melding
almost as seamlessly as their notes.
On血e phone from Gemany during a
European tour
血e brothers laugh when
‑ K宏劾arine Col如m
SaySナoseph. Anthony continues without
a pause: αIfyou
PlanO
re bo血sittmg at One
yOu have to decide who
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at the劫i壊紹,rmme Ce彬rのt 8p.徽
On the o血er,s flow with the musIC, SO
勅e proceeみ研uクo to the勘微tore Broth‑
血eir befuddled interviewer loses track of
that one is not overpowemg血e o血er・
en
Who
And with亡WO PlanOS血ere
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s speaking. αIt doesn,t matter ifyou
know who
s who
says An血ony. αWe,re
different problems.
a duo) SO We SPeak for each o血er.,,
They play for each other, tOO ‑ and
s a host of
βrpr締mかea房物のnd a彬印tion.励r
The bro血ers play both ways‥ On One
more iク狗m炒のあ0殊ple彬Cの〃物e School
PlanO and on two. Everyone from Bach
血e coIors and spectrum ofsound,
fundraiser for our music fratemity, and
An血ony recalls.
Two pianos are like a mini‑
OrChestra ‑ We
re always trymg tO COn‑
We realized
一
一
αBut wi心血at experience
Joseph says.
滋脳
Sionistic French composers to create
Were Students at BU ‑ I think it was a
Vince the listener血at血ey,re not JuSt
We enJOyed making music together
listenmg tO PlanO SOunds; We try tO glⅤe
OnStage and血at we enJOyed the whole
血e illusion ofvaried timbres that an
PreParation for the concert. we were in
OrChestra can produce.
it together・ It was challengmg but excit‑
mg, and the audience seemed to like
What we were doing. That was our
awakening.
享子
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two‑PlanO debut is still palpable. αWe
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music for four hands. αWごalso Iove
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We did it just for fun,
錠h最初勿E易nd at the鋤001jbr ihe
AIthough the Nわ雛)巌HmeJ
acclaims their αremarkable. ‥ matChing
POetic sensibilities
and血e Milwu巌e
Smあ徹el ca11s血em virtuosos wi血αfour
Members ofa dose and music‑manic
family (at one point血ere were丘ve
Pianos, One for each child),血e bro血ers
hands and one mind,
the brothers are
no dones. Growmg uP, SayS An血ony,
̀̀we were JuSt like any two brothers,
Studied soIo piano at BU (under Bela
With our ups and downs. Wごhave diff料‑
Nagy) and血en at Juilliard, but they
ent personalities
Were always fascinated wi血duet playmg.
di節erent artistic personalities are a plus
After血eir duo debut with the Boston
for a duo because you bring your under‑
Obviously, but I think
Pops and perfomances wi血several
Standing
O血er orchestras
tions into play toge血er, and you try to
血ey captured first
yOur feelings, and your emo‑
PnZe in the Munich Intemational Music
agree on one cohesive musical state‑
Competition ‑ the frst American duo to
ment. That glVeS uS the same goal; how
do so. They,ve been performmg tOge血er
We reaCh it is a matter ofcompromise.
But he acknowledges that血ey,ve always
Musical duos are furly common;
PlanO duos are not. αBasically, Planists
had αhamonious chemistry When
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Curricula at the Early Leammg Cen‑
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education and develop language, mOtOr,
and basic numeracy skills as preparation
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Marianne Moore ‑ Be園音e Le七皿s七e
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ernists who chose not
q山c妃y現VeS
to emlgrate, but rather
twice/in
Stayed to forge the new
nothing so
on her native soil. In an‑
as in a
間e whomuchglVeS
letter
O血er early poem, ̀̀Eng‑
writes Marianne
Moore in
BowIs,
land,
物e労のクer mdj加のit
early poem about the
ゲa〃劾a寂Oted
POSSibility ofprecision in
∫窄periori砂′ ‑
an age ofrapid transit.
Moore
she writes:
an
グnot ∫t微mbled御脇
s correspondence
in Americみ
WaS PrOmPt, but never
m幼Jt One im物雛肋のt
hurried, and the record
itあnOt there?
Ofexchanges is a study
in passionate delibera‑
She could imaglne
Otherwise. Hers was,
tion, nOt Only with fam‑
ily and friends, but also
She admits, a
With the maJOr Writers
linksless, languageless
and artists ofher time ‑
COuntry,
including writers T. S.
Were
graSSless,
where there
nO PrOOfreaders,
Eliot, William Carlos
no silkworms, nO digres‑
Williams, W別lace Ste‑
sions.
VenS, Ezra Pomd, e. e.
fertile and the excellence
But the soil was
CunmmgS, W H. Auden,
ofmodern art took root
Elizabeth Bishop
in it. Moore moved to
and
NewYork City in 1918,
Louise Bogan and artists
Joseph Comell, Marsden Hartley, and
tion
who can ̀̀present for inspection. ‥
entermg a Whirlwind ofartistic activity. As
AIfred Stieglitz. A cross section ofone
imagmary gardens with real toads in
She wrote to血e expatriate Ezra Pound in
s
COrreSPOndence would seem to imply血e
them・
(In a college letter she speaks of
imagmary OWIs in imagmary forests
disorder oflife, Moore admits, but in Aer
;
letters, aS in her poetry, αwe leam血at we
血e evolution to real toads is instructive.)
are precisionists
Moore eschewed the role ofαpoetess
nOt Citizens of Pompell
arrested in action. ,,
1919 about life among the NewYork
avant garde,
I sometimes feel as if血ere
are too many captains in one boat, but
and instead wrote a sharp‑Witted, for‑
B脇のie Co∫彫Ilo iJのpr雌榔Or〆1助砂妨h
Mariame Craig Moore (1887‑1972) is
mally radical poetry that holds aesthetics
のt che Coll物e qfA触。nd Sciem飢She ;∫
One Of血e maJOr POetS Ofthe modemist
to an exactmg ethical standard. As she
物e u劾or qfMariame Moore: Imagi‑
era, Celebrated by her famous contempo‑
Writes in 1935,
nary Possessions md Elizabeth Bishop:
raries as a supreme inventor who can, m‑
wi血me at any rate, a kind oftransposed
Questions ofMastery. She ;∫錫mn均′のt
deed) meet her own high measure of
doctrine ofexistence.
妙o綴on & boo雇m房tkh Modem Nature,
POetry: She is a ̀̀literalist of血e imagma‑
LOuis, She was one of血e American mod‑
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On the whole, the amount ofsteady co‑
Sele房.ed Letter∫ qfMhrimne Moore at‑
1896 Moore
OPeration血at is to be counted on in血e
tempts to offer a portrait ofa poet whose
interest of gettmg things launched, is an
interests extended to the五ne and per‑
Moore, Writes a prescient letter to her
COuSin, Mary Shoemaker:
amazement to me.
formmg artS
In 1924 she won the
religion, POlitics, the do‑
Dial Award, and in 1925 became editor
mestic arts, and popular culture, and
Of物e Dia4 a maJOr intemational maga‑
Whose family and friendships remained as
Zine ofthe arts. Her Selected Poem∫ aP‑
important as her professional life. The
Peared in 1935 with an introduction by
COrreSPOndence is unlque for a poet in
T. S. Eliot, Who wrote that her work
forms αpart ofthe small body of durable
s mother, Mary Wamer
You would have laughed surely, COuld
you have heard my daughter
s lament
血at血e [book of] poet砂was for VAmer
[Moore
s brother], ra血er than her. She
dote∫ On POet砂tO a Perfectly horrible de‑
血e extent ofits extraliterary mtereStS and
gree・ I know we shall yet have a poetess
in the family, and finish our day languish‑
PaSSionate engagement wi心血e world at
POetry Written in our time; Ofthat small
large. In her college adventures, her trav‑
ing in an attic (prior to the ages when
body ofwritings, amOng What passes for
els, and血e flurry ofher artistic and social
POSterity 8c future generations will be
POetry
in which an original sensibility and
activities, there seems to have been no
alert intelligence and deep feeling have
皿l・ What has struck me most in reading
been engaged in maintainmg the life of
through this voluminous correspon‑
a period ofliterary apprenticeship. She
dence is the vitality and fullness ofthe
regularly sent her wrltmgS Off to friends
long life it records.
and family, mVltmg their opmion・ Some
血e English language.
I can,t help won‑
dering ifhe was responding to Moore
s
Singing our praises).
Moore
s years at Bryn Mawr served as
魚mous tolerance for our adulteration of
The task ofediting these important
Of these early eff()rtS developed into
血e language into αplain American which
letters was vast and complicated. Two
mature poems years later. The letters to
CatS and dogs can read.
associate editors ‑ Cristanne Miller and
Moore
Celeste Goodridge ‑ COnthbuted to every
ing account ofa young writer finding
Six Degrees of Honor
s family and friends provide a mov‑
Stage Ofthe proJeCt・ The initial ques‑
She became a literary elder statesman her‑
tion) Ofcourse) WaS 40m tO PreSent the
Selfin later years , eVentually wimmg eVery
material. Letters have literary value, but
major American prlZe for literature arld
they are not usually written for publi‑
eammg six honorary degrees. In血is role
Cation, SO tO ga血er血em for publication
Is it that you want to write or is it that
you have some血ing to say江came on in
丁切e Atla′n擁yeSterday. I have come to
the condusion ‑ that I偉want to write
She helped to launch the careers ofother
is already to tamper. Moore and her fam‑
and that shortly I 72,i〃 have something to
POetS. As a college student at Vdssar in
ily血rew very little away; thus the family
Say My
1934, Elizabe血Bishop was血rilled when
COrreSPOndence alone could constitute
then talk a page ofrot to every halfline
style
is execrable. I slave, and
the campus librarian, a family friend of
SeVeral volumes. (And Moore kept car‑
Ofsense, but血e thing lS tOO muCh a so‑
Moore
helped arrange a meeting m
bons or drafts ofmany ofthe letters
lace, a fascination, a WeaPOn‑tO‑Wield
between the lions in front ofthe New
York Public Library Bishop and Moore
She sent to her literary correspondents. )
Selection was obviously required ‑ but
remained dose, COrreSPOnding until
how much; On what pmciples? Thomas
Verted: art is a αweapon to wield
Moore
Hardy
all that oppresses the spirit. Dejection
s
s death・ In 1952 Allen Ginsberg
̀̀etc.
to crush into invisib皿ty.
From this purpose she was never di‑
s letters make up sIX VOlumes. V〕l‑
agamSt
Sent Moore the manuscnPt Ofhis丘rst
ume I ofEliot
book,勅e E卿かMirror, and her advice to
1922・ In血e end, We decided on a smgle,
her life and art were designed to resist
him was consistent wi血her sense血at po‑
modest volume for Moore
them.
etry should a綿m life
the hope that it would be accessible to
Or help us endure
and defeat are the enemies ofpoetry, and
s letters goes only to
s letters, m
The family generally supported
it:件Patient or impatient repudiating oflife,
readers outside academla, and that it
Moore
juSt rePudiates itself. ‥ Ⅵ7hat can be ex‑
WOuld represent an extension ofMoore
s
the Moores did not tie ambition to pub‑
literary achievement. We sought to rep‑
1ication, but instead to posterlty and the
resent a life wi血poetry as its center・
glory of God. Their standards were high,
Cltmg tO Others is one
is too hard.
s struggle wi血what
In all Moore
s advice to
younger poets, We hear her selfadmonish‑
Many two‑Way COrreSPOndences be‑
ment, Checking the pride that inevitably
tween the modems have been published
SWe11s wi血fame. Moore
s ambitions. On血e o血er hand,
especially those ofMoore
s mother.
Moore writes proudly to her brother
s celebrity far ex‑
in recent years, and that was another
On October 3, 1915, abouther accep‑
Ceeded血e relatively small circle ofpoets
approach considered. Certainly, a VOl‑
tance in the newJOumal Other∫. But
and poetry readers. In血e五fties and sixties
ume ofletters between Moore and Ezra
her mother,s wammgS agamSt the pre‑
She occasionally wrote as many as触y let‑
Pound
CIPltOuS eXCeSSeS Ofpride held sway.
ters a day (each mique, 1ively, memOrable)
in response to the
mail
volumes ofirrelevant
she was recelVmg. The poet
s poet
had become血e public,s poet.
A tiny cross section ofa correspon‑
for instance
Published. But Moore
Will eventua11y be
I
Said) ̀You would omit all these things I
s correspondence
was so wide and so varied that a Selec杉d
Prize so much?
̀Yes,
̀血ey,re ephemeral・
Lette狗, rePreSentmg that breadth of in‑
said [her mo血er],
While血e opportu‑
terest and contact, Seemed the best way
nlty arOSe from several comers, Moore
to begin.
followed her mother,s advice not to
dence that amounts to some 30,000
One ofthe singular pleasures ofedit‑
items by Moore alone (held in hundreds
mg these letters was their unfolding ofa
England ‑ H・D・ (Hilda Doolittle), Bry‑
POet
her (Winifred Ellerman), and Robert
Ofrepositories, Private and public)言的e
Publish a book. When her friends in
s sense ofvocation. On Christmas
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her work for Harriet Weaver,s EgoISt
Press, under the title Poem∫, She was
both delighted and dismayed. As she
Writes to Bryher in 192l,
In協riation∫
q手Animaんa′nd P楊n加脇der Dome∫ticの‑
tio
Darwin speaks ofa variety ofpi‑
geon that is bom naked without any
down whatever. I feel like that Darwin‑
ian gosling.
̀̀Omissions Are Not Accidents
This血eme ofexposure and血e need for
amor agamSt the rapacious ego remains
Central to Moore
revision (
s wrltmg. Her obsessive
omissioTS are nOt aCCidents
)
and her appreclatlOn Of ̀̀natural reti‑
CenCe are traceable to her mother. We do
not have αpoetry,
̀̀raw material
Moore writes
Only its
and αthat which is on the
O血er hand, genuine.
Moore could appreciate血e genuine in
her contemporaries
and the letters are
Studded with tributes that are poems in
脇rim′雛Mò彬7a?ith Ala脇nder Cのae考Mゐrc C切砂場md MGriカa Grabam.
themselves. She writes to William Carlos
W皿ams
life
in 1936,血at his poems αhave a
a Style
that should not surprlSe me,
imagmation do, however, Set uP an ̀in「
fane and libelous tongue. Inナuly 1955
fectious riot in血e mind
She writes: %EZRA, When a philosopher,s
and the impres‑
but does; 1ike dew‑drops on血e coat ofa
Sion long after reading JuSti五es the poem
SPeeCh is unsavory, indeed foul, Ofwhat
raccoon.
to me.
use has philosophy been to him. This
The literary world generally
Moore was highly tolerant and
SPurned Wa11ace Stevens when his Hカrmo‑
Clear‑eyed) discemmg in her own values
needs no date ‑ nO queStion‑mark. It is
ni微m WaS reissued and expanded in 193l.
but never tummg her back on血ose with
for all time.
The age ofsocial realism had址tle dme for
a different sense ofproprlety・ She be‑
COmPaSSion for him in his postwar plight
While she showed great
gmS a letter to e.e. cummmgS:負Dear Mr・
she would not overlook his racism. In
derstood something about Stevens that
CummmgS ‑ blasphemous, meXOrable,
September 1957, just months before his
O血ers seldom recognized: behind血e ele‑
disrespectful) Sinful author though you
release
gant surfaces and Pamassian mamer was a
are
able, tO defy me, about血e Jews who are
the poet of五ctive music. But Moore un置
and goes on in superlative praise of
She writes:寝Ezra
yOu are intoler‑
POet Ofgreat suffering and longmg. As she
his volume Nb物m短. She eagerly pub‑
not mine alone, but everybody
writes to W皿iams in 1944:
1ished D. H. Lawrence in物eDi勿de‑
factor; and foolish.
SPlte tremOrS CauSed by the trial of Lady
in 1972, Pound emerged from a decade‑
α鋤切lり万Loγer: αOne asks for血e high
long silence to recite her ̀̀What Are
beauty that you conceive, 1nViolateness
lたars
W址Iace Stevens is beyond fa血omng, he
is so strange; it is as ifhe had a morbid se‑
Cret he would ra血er perish than disdose
from reprisal. But taken as a whole, there
and just as he tells it out in his sleep, he
is an infection ofbeauty.
Changes into an uncontradictable judi‑
s bene‑
When Moore died
ters
Moore resisted the appeal offascism
Ciary wi血a gown and a gavel and you are
at a memorial service.
For all the playfulness in Moore
s let‑
then, We丘nd a woman capable of
deep understanding and deep reflection・
early and vigorously, eVen When friends
When fhends suffered, She offered com‑
Hあ〆m ∫放n幼∫ hのク物like hiγ鑓in he〃
were enthralled. She comments at the
PaSSion and encouragmg WOrds, Often in‑
Or n,haクhe〃妙aち∫i紗Ce nの砂bo劾he伽m
end ofa letter to Ezra Pound in Novem‑
SPired by her Christian falth. Attemptmg
ber 193l: αThe Italian stamps ‑ Roman
to cheer Edward McKnight Kau鮎er, a
wolfand Caesar ‑ make a hit with me
talented artist and dose friend of both
that the Fascisti do not.
Moore
embarrassed to havc heard anything:
のnd be〃
A彬のnらmd herらO ter脇i役Idel.
Whatever血is is saymg, 1t lS impossible to
gainsay.? [sic]
Moore
s corre‑
SPOndence with Pound began in 1918
She admired Eliot血roughout her life,
and she was Ioyal to him血roughout her
but she felt T切e W切∫teLandwas αma‑
life
Cabre.
tics and his bigotry to the last. Moore
̀̀It suggests血at imagmation has
but she resisted his mlSguided poli‑
s and T. S. Eliot
s, Who was de‑
PreSSed over professional and personal
failures
She drew on prmCiples that
guided her throughout her life:
As for
PerSPeCtive on life and proJeCted wisdom
been compressed whereas experience
WrOte tO Pound regularly and visited him
Or beauty
Should be precIPltate… ・ ̀Demotic
during his incarceration in St. Elizabeths
What can save us, Which is inviolable;
French,
Sanitarium, neVer intimidated by his pro‑
no血ing can hurt it.
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圏S S A Y S
&
R圏V喜田W S
lieve, affimative action is not merely mis‑
AHima七ive Ac七ion:
guided or ineffective, lt is also immoral.
̀̀Racially based numerical instruments,
Writes Carl Cohen) PrOfessor ofphiloso‑
Po園icy Versus P血cip臆e
BY A」AN
A
Phy at the Universlty Of Michigan
αhave
this grave and unavoidable defect: they
CamOt make the morally crucial distinc‑
WOLFE
tions between the blameworthy and the
S America took glant StePS tO‑
my reason for this position is simple: dis‑
blameless, between血e deservmg and血e
Ward racial equality m the early
agreement over racial discrimination and
undeserving.
Sixties, raCial discrimination and
disagreement over a鯖rmative action are
a範mative action is like a cancer spread‑
a範rmative action had little to do
not the same thing.
ing throughout society: unless it is radi‑
With each other・ During血e debate over
To disparage an individual because of
From this perspective,
Cally removed, the patient wi11 surely die.
血e Civil Rights Act of 1964, for example,
his race is invidious and pemicious. No
Senator Hubert Hunphrey, a StrOng SuP‑
decent soclety WOuld ever tolerate racial
liberals such as Humphrey and Douglas,
POrter Ofthe legislation, Went Out Ofhis
discrimination, Which is another way of
Wi1l often argue that quotas and set‑
Way tO insist血at no血ing in血e act would
Saymg that before血e Civil Rights Act of
asides, eVen ifintended to eliminate rac‑
1964, When this country did tolerate
ism, are themselves racist because they
employees in order to meet a racial ̀quota
racial discrimination, 1t WaS nOt a decent
CamOt eXist wi血out an elaborate system
or to achieve a certain racial balance. ,,
SOCiety. We now have a consensus that
Ofclassi五cation and countmg based on
racial discrimination is wrong
race. We who oppose a範rmative action,
αrequlre hiring, firing, Or PrOmOtion of
Ifthere had been any relationship be‑
Opponents of a錦rmative action, Cltmg
and no
tween discrimination and a範rmative ac‑
danger to the democratic texture of our
they maintain, are true adherents ofthe
tion before the contemporary period, it
SOCiety results from血e existence ofthat
PrmCiple of coIor blindness. Ifracial dis‑
was the idea that considerations ofracial
COnSenSuS. On the contrary, here is an
crimination for evil intentions is im‑
justice pretmted any counting by race. In
area where broad general agreement
moral, SO is racial discrimination for good
1974 the U.S. Supreme Court was con‑
around a moral prmCiple allows us to go
intentions. In血is way, OPPOnentS Of af一
fi.onted with血e case ofMarco DeFunis,
forward by assurmg all Americans that
五mative action link their perspective on
Who charged血at he had been denied ad‑
they will be considered血e legal and con‑
the policy with the pmCiple ofnondis‑
mission to the law school at the Univer‑
Stitutional equal ofeveryone else, 1rre‑
Crimination. The clear implication is that
Sity OfⅥshington because he was white.
SPeCtive oftheir race.
The Court dedared the issue moot, SlnCe
DeFunis had been ordered admitted by a
SuPPOrterS Of a飴rmative action, desplte
their professed adherence to the goal of
But unlike racial discrimination, a範r‑
s a
racial justice, have become a force for
POlicy. Arguments for and agamSt it can
be made by reasonable people. No one yet
maintainmg and perpetuatmg lnVidious
Butナustice William O. Douglas, in dis‑
Sent, thought the Court should have
knows enough about its effects to judge it
taken the opportunlty tO declare racial
a success or a failure. Under those cir‑
tive action disagree wi心血e diagnosis of
血eir antagonists in this debate, they tend
lower court and was about to graduate.
mative action is not a prlnCiple: it
distinctions based on race.
However much supporters of a範rma‑
quotas unconstitutional・ αA segregated
CumStanCeS, Citizens in a democracy can be
admissions process creates suggestions of
expected ‑ indeed) muSt be expected ‑
to agree with them about the moral sig‑
Stlgma and caste no less血an a segregated
to disagree about it. A consensus血at a億r
ni五cance ofwhat is at stake.
Classroom,
mative action is necessary for democracy,
he wrote,
and in血e end it
We need a飴rmative action, its defend‑
may produce that result desplte its con‑
like a consensus that a範rmative action is
ers maintain, aS both a practical and a
trary mtentions.
Symbolic redress agamSt the inclination
In such a fashion did a
mJurious to democracy, WOuld dose offde‑
man often considered to be the most lib‑
bate prematurely, and in that sense would
Ofwhites to pref五people oftheir own
eral Supreme Court JuStice in American
CauSe Serious ham to血e body politic.
race. As much as we might like to believe
history write an opmion that these days
would be dismissed as conservative.
Yet many who take strong positions on
血at racism is a血ing ofthe past, African‑
a鉦rmative action, eSPeCially those who
Americans are woefu臆11y underrepre‑
I recall this history not to argue for or
Write articles and books about it, View
Sented in positions ofpower and prestlge
agalnSt a範ma亡ive action. Rather, my
it more as a prmCiple than as apolicy.
in American life. Proponents insist that
POmt is that the United States would be
Whichever side ofthe issue they are on,
Whites
Slgni丘cantly helped by divorcmg the ar‑
血ey transform attitudes toward a缶rma‑
for racial justice on血e part ofblacks has
acceptance ofleg血mate demands
gument over a触rmative action from the
tive action into a litmus test ofgood in‑
always been halfhearted. In recent years
argument over racial discrimination. And
tentions. Opponents ofa範rmative action
moreover, the country has tumed more
argue that dassification by race for the
COnSerVative politically, Which means血at
A楊n l柵堆めa Uわi彬海砂pr昨∬Orのnd
pr昨∬Orゲ∫OCiol物γのnd political ∫Cieme.
PurPOSe Of increasmg minorlty rePreSen‑
COmmitment to the poorest and most
tation in the workplace or in educational
vulnerable Americans has weakened.
HあmoJt reCeク彼book ;∫Margmalized in
institutions violates血e prmCiple of indi‑
In this political environment, defend‑
the Middle.
Vidual merit. Because it does, they be‑
ers of a飴rmative action daim, attemPtS
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to restrict or eliminate a範rmative action
Courtナustice Harry Blackmun, WaS that
Ifthere are pragmatic ways ofputtmg
altogether can only be taken as one more
taking race into account could move the
a範rmative action into practice,血ere are
indication ofthe depths ofwhite resis「
COuntry tO a POmt Where it could begin to
also pragmatic ways of sofiening opposi‑
tance to the pmCiples ofa racially just so‑
lgnOre raCe. But what ifit camot? There is
tion to it・ I know ofno opponent ofa範r‑
Clety Whites know full we11 that without
SOmething to be said for the idea that as
mative action who wo山d say血at a black
a範mative action, the number of black
much as we may take race into accomt in
Student from an imer「Clty neighborhood
Students at elite law schooIs such as the
Our PerSOnal dealings wi血each o血er, We
Who managed to do well in high schooI
University of工七xas ‑ Whose a範mative
Ought to be wary oftaking lt into account
Should be denied a place in college in
action plans were ruled unconstitutional
in our laws. The evils ofsegregation and
魚vor ofwhite suburbanite who scored a
by federal courts ‑ Will decline substan‑
racial apartheid are too palpable not to
bit higher on his SATs. Newspapers that
tially・ The same applies in the business
CauSe a Shudder when govemment, aS a
routinely editorialize agamSt a鉦mative
WOrld. Look at血e Ttxaco case. High of‑
matter ofprinciple) O鯖cia皿y and irradica‑
action, SuCh as the脇II StreetJbum勿
ficials ofthe company
bly dassi五es people by race.
try to diversify血eir workplaces. Even the
Were being taped
unaWare血at血ey
made racially disparag「
ing remarks about African‑Americans
By linking support or opposition to
Republican party) Which frequently tries
affirmative action with the prmCiple
to ra11y public opmion agamst a範rmative
Who worked for血e company. In such an
Ofcombattmg raCism, both sides in this
action) PrOudly displays its African‑
environment) StrOng meaSureS
debate make it more di範cult for Ameri‑
American elected o能cials on television.
a範mative action, are needed ifthe goal
CanS tO reaCh a compromise position血at
These are people who maintain血at tak‑
Ofnondiscrimination is to be met.
COuld dispel some of血e distrust around
mg raCe into consideration violates the
Supporters of a飴rmative action are
血e issue" Fortunately) however, the way
dearly correct in suggestmg that those
PrmCiple ofcoIor blindness, but who
a範mative action has worked in practice
nonetheless do so血emselves in血e daily
Who insist on the importance ofmerit
is quite different from the way lt is de‑
decisions血ey make.
tend to overlook all kinds of examples in
bated in血eory. Talk to businessmen, for
Ifit somds as ifI an chargmg血at血ere
American life where merlt Plays little role:
example) and they will often tell you血at
is a great deal ofhypocrlSy OVer a億rmative
SPeCial bene丘ts for noncombatant veter‑
a鯖rmative action is a good thing, SO
action, I am. But ifit sounds as ifI am also
good that some of血em would continue
Saymg血at such hypocnsy lS a bad thing
to practice it even ifgovemment no
am not・ Democracy req田reS a Certain de‑
ans
αquotas
Sities
including
for good a血Ietes at univer「
admission privileges for children of
alumni, and血e role played by αold‑boy
Ionger required it. But ask them their
networks in hiring and promotion・ The
reasons
and the last thing m the world
I
gree ofhypocrlSy・ For ifour actions are
Often not in accord w血our血eohes, 1t is
fact that a pmCiple such as treatmg peo‑
they tend to mention is the pursuit of
血e actions血at must be changed
Ple on their merits has been violated so
racial justice. A飴mative action is good
theories. Theories about how the world
nOt血e
Often suggests that it is a pmCiple that
for business
One frequently hears. We
O後カt to work have to have some relation
COuld be relaxed one more time without
need to reach bigger markets) tO expand
With how the world doeJWOrk. When it
血reatenmg血e American way oflife.
At血e same time, OPPOnentS Ofa億ma‑
Our POOI ofempIoyees, and to create cor‑
COmeS tO a飴rmative action, the world
POrate gOOd will. Indeed, big business is
WOrks by finding血at countmg and classi‑
tive action are also right in pomtmg Out
especially interested in supporting af一
血at a policy meant to be a temporary ex‑
五rmative action for the crassest ofeco‑
Pedient to achieve racial equa止ty has trans‑
nomic reasons: 1arger五ms can swallow
ers and opponents ofa範rmative action
formed itselfinto a permanent feature
the costs of complying with a範mative
recognlZe血e truth in that ambivalence,
OfAmerican life. The hope behind a億r‑
action better than smaller五rms
mative action, m the words ofSupreme
BACK BAYfromp物e80
I blinked once.
Do youwant to know more?
thereby
I blinked twice. That was enough in‑
fomation for one day
historic racial divide.
to血e eleven血second ofthat game when
me. I won
I was paralyzed. 1雇no扉t・ I
ever happened. I won
ll go back to
t remember that any ofthis
t have known the
quadriplegic Travis Roy ever existed, and
ish my check properly, aS I,d intended. I
nei血er will anyone else.
ll
五nish my shift. I may even score a goal・
ll go back to that
%Are you ang】ry?
moment
Are you sadク
s
亡コ
血at precise instant, Only血is time I,11丘n‑
The instant I die) I
I blinked twice.
血e doser we will be to bridging America
Pu血ng血e latter at a disadvantage.
she
COntinued.
fying by race is wrong in general, but right
in speci五c cases. The more both support‑
and I
11 pick up agam With the
I don
t know iflife goes on and on like
this ‑ dying and returmng, dying and re‑
tummg鵜until you somehow get your
life I was supposed to have lived. The life
life right. It
Travis Roy was supposed to have lived.
explanation for dく軍vu. When you knon,
s possible. Maybe that
s the
I blinked once. It was probably mneces‑
The Travis Roy who grew up in Yar‑
Sary, for my eyes were brimmng wi血tears.
mou血, nOt血e one who was bom on血e
SOmeWhere
ice eleven seconds into his first college
explain lt) eXCePt by allowmg that a tmy
game. I
Part Ofyour brain or your soul remembers
I know‑ and don,t ask me how I know
it
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ll be flesh and blood. It won
my spirit that does the reliving. It
O=A
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ll be
you,ve already done something, Or been
but there
s no way you can
血at you lived血rough it once before. ⊂⊃
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&
REVIEWS
lacking even the names they were bom
ALUMN工
BY
NA丁AL!E
BooKS
JACOBSON
With‥ the women are called by geisha‑
related names, the men almost entirely
by job titles, because that, tOO, is what
McCRACKEN
relates. This is geisha life ofthe thirties
and forties, the fate of血ousands oflittle
Ybsef l. Abramowitz (C4S,87) and Susan
PreSident of the Poe Studies Association
girls sold into virtual slavery, lonely girls
Si!veman (CAS
and coeditor ofits newsletter for over a
taught obsequlOuSneSS, Subterfuge, and
LみGolden Books. For p竺ntS Who
decade; he publishes frequently on Poe
Petty reVenge, Valued by women only as
Wish to raise children commltted toナu‑
and is editor ofseveral books.
COmmOdities (even her kind mentor tums
85). JbmiJh劫mib′少
daism, this husband (a joumalist) and
Out tO have been paid extra) and by men
59/. F;揚物
as sources ofego gratification and enter‑
formation, and suggestlOnS. The orienta‑
D物∫・ Ten Speed Press. Being a mar‑
tainment, SOCial or sexual. Golden is a
tion is traditional: blessmgS before meals
Velously straight‑faced guide to血e bail‑
COnSiderable Japanese scholar, and much
even at McDonald
dale, flounderhounder, angler dog, and
has been made ofthe book
O血er little‑known varieties of cm紺p寂a‑
feeding our Japan obsession. But血e re‑
and definitely no Christmas, eVen in
toriu∫, tOgether with valuable informa‑
SPOnSe Mimoi宛elicits is no more because
mixed mamageS. But it
tion on dog breeding around血e world,
Of its distinction as travelogue血an as fic‑
Only occasionally observant, they suggest
Which is nowhere more practical than in
tion, al血ough the effect on血e reader re‑
JOyOuS holidays rather than the somber
Italy, Where they are named for vegeta輸
Sembles in the best way that ofa novel.
High Holy Days; for working parents, a
bles:
The action is suspenseful and deeply
traditional Friday night pizza.
finds a vegetable and pesto
Wife (a rabbi) offer enfOuragement
in‑
s, a full day offamily
Sabbath observance whenever possible,
s flexible: for the
A committed dissident in his BU days,
Abranowitz made headlines wi血his legal
Raymond Coppinger (CAS
breed.
Follow the dog around until it
yOu
ve got a
The equally scholarly illustra‑
tions are by Peter Pinardi.
αDivest
from his
movmg because it is true, and although
We are following a triumphant career,
hideous ‑ nOt the least because the nar‑
battle to fly a ban‑
ner proclaiming
s success at
rator, While often
8?). Memoi夕照fの
sad and sometimes
Ge巌の. Kopf The impact ofthis novel is
angry, for the most
Arthur Go音den (GRS
dorm window;血e
not its fiction. PIot and character are fasci‑
Part aCCePtS geisha
COuPle reportedly
nating precisely because they are thin
COnVentlOnS aS nat‑
met at a demon‑
enough to reveal the tru血beneath. The
ural and proper. Her
stration outside the
minor characters ‑ and血at
PmCe, the one per‑
President
but the geisha ofthe title ‑ are delin‑
SOn Who appears to
eated just enough to provide context,
Value her for herself;
s O鯖ce.
His passion is un‑
abated, if directed elsewhere; Of血e book
and Jewishfamily.com, the Wtb site of
Which he is editor and publisher, he says,
̀̀Our goal has always been to transform
Americanナewish families. ,,
Nan⊂y B. Burrell (COM,7の. A Ro∫e in
$tのiタグed Glの∬. Commonwealth. Barrie
ナacobson, thirty‑four and just released
from a Florida psychiatric ward without
diagnosis or directed follow‑uP, decides
POt and a trlP tO Key West will prepare
her for a retum to college. She joumeys
instead into deepening psychosis in a
first‑PerSOn aCCOunt Of delusions, dose
Calls, and eventual selHmowledge.
帥c W Carlson (SMG,32, GRS,36,47),
ed. A Con印のniα移Jo Poe S寂dieJ. Green‑
wood Press. A substantial collection of
essays on Poe
s life and works, the bi‑
Ographies and criticism, and his influence
On literature and the arts, both elevated
and popular・ Carlson was the founding
s everybody
E S SAYS
&
REVIE WS
COmeS at last, and having negotiated the
more than 250, before the chain was re‑
W物のt Do IDo?2, prometheus. For slngle
deal wi血somebody else, Claims her as his
duced to a Genesco subsidiary, in 1963,
teenagerS.
OWn. She leaves血e geisha ife, its miseries
and血en dosed.
Designed primarily by in‑house archi‑
and pleasures, tO ride offbehind him to
isolation amidst the fam亜ar and then to a
Strange land
Where she se血es contentedly
enough into a happmeSS‑eVer‑after that
tects
血e larger Kress buildings had the
Martin R. Dunertz (C4S
52).第u 。nd
lb勿r 4∬et∫: A Practicのl Guide fo Finのn‑
grandeur approprlate tO the recreational
Ciのl脇n物ementのnd E∫tのte Plのm〃物・
Palaces they became, COmbining some
Madison Books. Not just for血e wea皿y,
is a sometimes thing ‑ he has, after all,
uniformlty m COIor, layout, and detail
SayS this financial economist, and cer置
Obligadons to his job and his wife. It
With distinctive splendors. Architecture
tainly not a do‑it‑yOurSelfmanual, but
kind ofloneliness and subjugation she was
Of血e twenties echoed an English coun‑
background for working with profession‑
raised for, and we sorrow, but not for her.
try house in Lakeland, FIorida, a Palacio
als: he recommends a team.
s血e
in Tampa, and a Greek temple in Mont‑
Bernice L. Thomas (GR$,75). 4merica万
gomery, although opemng advertising
Jamie Gates Gaieana (SAR
5臼」0 Cent Stor飢T切e Kr鮒L物aey.ナohn
related that facade to the traditions ofthe
二Ier Meer・ T物納Wiのn Coohi御重r Hial砂
Wiley 8[ Sons. The year in which the五rst
Old Sou血) Perhaps to reduce opposition
Li7
and only survrvmg dime store chain finally
to the Yankee enterpnSe. Stores built
G勿idefbr L寂ク物彬Il. Appletree Press.
8β) and Mary
iク移: 4n Uhra Lom一助t N幼擁ition
SuCCumbed gives polgnanCy tO血is archi‑
during the Depression were grandly Art
There may be nothing much new under
tectural history ofanother maJOr Part Of
Deco, COmfortingly luxurious to their
the low‑fat rubric, but these recIPeS eX‑
the tradition. In 1879 F. W WboIworth
CuStOmerS and excellent investments,
established a small store, a merChandising
being constructed with an economy not
ination and some useful information on
me血od
later possible.
COmmerCial products.
and a way ofshoppmg. Soon as‑
Pand on the Omish principles wi血imag‑
Only a few remam, nOW home to banks,
Plrmg entrePreneurS Were followmg the
WboIworth pattem down to the nammg
repertory血eaters) and o飴ce complexes.
Of血eir enterpnses. S. S・ Kresge, S. H. Kress
The postwar explosion of shopplng Cen‑
the Re∫t qf Uj.: 4 Practicのl Guide/br
Ad勿,lt Ride祢. Howell Book House, En‑
Jessica Jahiel (GRS
75,
92). Ridiク移華r
(血e two unrelated men informally agreed
ters destroyed the traditional downtown,
to reduce confusion by never competmg on
the only proper setting for a five‑and‑
COuragement and information for adults
the same street), W T. Grant, and others
dime. Thomas
With limited resources and less‑血an‑Per‑
OPened similar stores in downtowns across
s architectural study, Wi血
Photographs, eVOkes unstated memories
fect bodies on血e joys ofcommunication
血e comtry. Through large windows, illu‑
Oftiny celluloid doll babies, PenCil boxes,
with血eir less‑than‑Perfect horses.
minated at night for window‑Shoppers,
toilet water in glittemg glass bottles, and
PasSerSby were enticed by chang皿g displays
Other archaic delights familiar to most pre‑
Kevin Quirk (COM
and a clear view of血e sel血g floor, wi血its
Sent‑day readers only from丘ction.
で
ALSO NoTED
脇杉. Simon & Schuster. A sportswriter‑
脇en暫0碩ComeBeカWe錫部u md登るur
血ousands of items arranged in geometric
PattemS On rank after rank oflow counters:
乃)・ NotN巧Hoク㌍男
m切なtchiク砂the Gのme:脇at tO Do
tumed‑COunSelor offers lightly worded
a vast wonderland of血e useful,血e attrac‑
tive) and血e accessibly luxurious. Samuel
but serious advice to sports「CraZed men
Kress opened his first store in 1896, eleven
Marγ P. Derby ($PH,88) and Robert
and the women about to stop loving
more over血e next three years, and丘na皿y
W・ Buckingham. q
them.
ALUMN工
m Pr物n脇ちNoW
RECORD工NGS
WOrks with Frank Kimbrough, a Planist
with whom Bickerton shares musical
affinities. This CD is on an obscure label,
BY TAYLOR McNEIL
SO yOu might have to Iook around for it,
but that effort will be rewarded.
John Bickerton (S且4,85).ナohn Bicker‑
thoughtful musical in‑
ton Trio. Dri巌i杉戸om z*e GoldeククC舞.
telligence, full of angu‑
Bob Frank (COM75). Blue Lunch. Bl勿e
Loud Neighbors Music. The norm for a
lar beauty.
L物nCh: Recorked Liヮe at
debut planO trio album is to cover stan‑
for instance, beglnS
Snowfall,
脇lbert十.
Wilbert,s Blues Rccords. This eight‑man
dards and maybe toss in a few, Often
almost somberly, but
blues combo rocks through a dozen
SOmeWhat tentative, Orlgmals. Not so for
with the introduction
tunes recorded live in Cleveland earlier
this trio. This album brings an hour of
Ofpercussion and bass, the mood shifts
this year. Frank, Who produced the CD,
Orlgmal compositions by Bickerton, and
to peaceful ‑ and shifts agam, COnStantly
Plays gultar and shares lead vocals, SerV‑
refreshing ones at血at. Bickerton says his
COnJuring up new scenes. Bickerton is
ing up some zingy gultar licks. The
quietly in control血roughout, SuPPOrted
SOund is expansive: tenOr and baritone
JaZZ ‑ but think Omette Coleman, nOt
by drummer Tim Homer and bassist Ben
SaXOPhones) trOmbone, and piano on top
fusion・ Aumost all the tracks bespeak a
AIlison, an aCCOmPlished player who also
Ofthe gultar, bass, drums, and harmon‑
musical home is the edecticism of,70s
78
.
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ica. The sound
s so full, in fact, that at
&
R E VI E WS
The触een tracks range from smgmg m
times the music seems less Iow‑down
Papua New Guinea and the dawn soIos
blues and more rock ‑ albeit rock in
Ofpied butcher‑birds to ambient music
touch with its roots. Either way, Blue
by Brian Eno and a Beethoven planO
Lunch is dearly out to have a good time
even if血ey
SOnata・ The comectmg thread? It isn
horse,
The music shifts ground often, nOt Simply
reflectmg血e lyrics, but rather bouncmg
t so
Offthem and heading m neW directions.
much血at many musics remind us ofna‑
re smgmg the blues.
ture or that nature
Ann・Marie Messbauer (CAS,8?). Three
OfCups. H初her Gromd. Three of Cups,
Sharing血is approach is the instrumental
Medieval People,
s sounds seem like
music to us, but血at it
while sitar sounds echo a sixties
SenSibility, mOre reference than retro.
s all comected ‑
in which a catchy
melody competes wi血bombastic sounds
all one ‑in the end.
that are anything but peacefilL Maybe
a traditional folk trio, formed a decade
it
s all summed up m the lines from an‑
s Folk
Joshua Shafer (CAS,96). Fathouse. 4
Other song:
Songs as Social History class, and this is
Pi紗, 4? Corh, m?d 。 Card. In a world of
Victory, but I
m hopmg that love will
the group
This Helium CD, With
ago in BU Professor Tbny Barrand
I was bom ofthe devil
s first CD・ Many ofthe nine‑
three‑minute pop songs delivemg the
Set me free.
teen songs are a cappella; Messbauer sup‑
Same Old same old, Fathouse is a refresh‑
Mitch Easter produc‑
Plies the violin, gultar, and percussion
1ng Change, eXChangmg electric gultarS
ing (as on this spring
When needed. The songs range in orlgm
for acoustic and the usual bursts of
Nb G幼i幼狗EP), Shows
from Appalachia to England to Austria,
teenage angst for ballads. Singer Virgil
Helium matumg, tak‑
but are mainly in血e English folk tradi‑
Ghita has a heartfelt ‑ and distinct ‑
mg a Pa血many bands
tion. Messbauer, Deborah Claar (Sargent
VOice that
never go down.
College coordinator of undergraduate
introverted, COnVeylng Subtleties of
PrOgramS), and Kelly Demers take tums
emotion・ The six Iongish songs on this
Ioan Wasser (S且4
On lead and backing vocals. All have
Self‑released debut CD range from rela‑
Dambuilders. 4tyain∫タ
beautiful voices, and happily, nO need to
tionships (
Show off Instead血ey let血e songs speak
the Start
s by tums extroverted and
the Stのr∫. EastWest
Records. I,ve never
thought ofthe Dam‑
Standout song,
graceful darity.
mg tale oflife behind bars in TanglerS.
Seven Ytars,
a haunt‑
My youth was my only crime, nOW I
seen a whole lifetime
(GRS,9」). Um′munO.
in these seven years,
music is at once highly
PerSOnal and quite
Pulling us into the an‑
WOrldly Part ofa group
On his earlier On Jhe Cl郷qf物e Hea′rち
guish while lulling us
With a wonderful melody. Evidence of
here he,s pretty much on his own
Fathouse
marily on clarinet and keyboards. The
track,
With 4グaim′∫タJhe S飯沼they seem at first
glance to be glVmg m tO fashion ‑ JuSt
look at血e cover. That
Ghita sings in the
Shafer‑Pemed tune,
s
builders as trendy, but
ve
David Rothenberg
Prl‑
93).
and ̀̀From
Simply, COnVeymg Old worlds with a
Felmay・ Rothenberg
s
) to an instrumental to the
Take Your Place
s VAsser, Violinist
and vocalist, Stamg Out at yOu;血e rest of
血e packaging lS Similady space‑agey And
the openmg traCk is called
Digitize
‑
yikes, Shades ofNegroponte. But血e arc‑
mg gultar in血at song grves it edge, eVen
s selfconfidence is the last
Gorilla,
s
a Gang ofFour twist. Overall,血is is more
an instrumental that
POP血an previous Dambuilders records,
backgrounds for these soundscapes range
WOrks well as a song, unuSual enough in
though just as inventive ‑ ̀̀Break Up
from Antarctica and rain forests to
血e pop world
With Your Boyfriend
Morocco andナapan, in the latter, for
and controlled. And Fathouse is a truly
Want Me Around
instance, Pamng the clarinet with a
BU band: Shaf料
CatChy and polgnant. Wasser
traditional Jhakuhのchi flute in homage to
those necessities froing. musicians) is
a紐eenth‑Century Zen master・ The uni‑
here at Bo∫tOク毒勿Ghita lS a Student at
COntrOI on the tracks on which she sings
COM, and drummer Ryan Asmussen
lead vocals. For instance, On
WOrks at the SchooI ofLaw, aS does the
Which she also wrote, She really gets
fying theme ofthese diverse.sources of
insplration is not their exotlCneSS, but
ra血er血at each is part ofa larger musical
group
Shafer,s lead gultar tight
s new dayjob (one of
and
You Might
are typICal ofthis,
s violin is a
bit more muted血an before, but she takes
Itch It,
血e energy pumped up. Her violin is also
s new bassist, Mark Barrasso.
Whole. The title refers to the Spanish ex「
Vital on the final track,
istentialist Miguel de Unamuno, Who is
Mary Timonγ (CAS,92). Helium. The
quoted as having said) αMan can only be
M診ic C砂Matador. Helium floats offin
beyond its maker
truly understood when he is howling.,,
a new direction wi血勅e M汐ic Ci功One
O血erworldly sounds.
Wrong Star,
Wishing on the
taking the instrument far
s intent, SCratChing out
Here there is little howling; rather, an
血at might be labeled neopsychedelic ‑
improvised feel血at argues agamSt rules
except血at血is music is really too creative
Note: When wrltlng Our reView ofSissy
and strictures, the clarinet by tums
and original to be labeled at all. Gone are
Bar
moumful, tentative, and flighty as the
the angry lyrics ofyore, rePlaced by a
issue ofBo∫t(mia, We didn
mood strikes. Rothenberg, Who
mythic vision.
band member Brad
OfMIT Press
s editor
s TをrrのNoゥa, has also pro‑
Lady ofthe Fire
is an ex‑
ample of血e new dragon‑釧ed approach,
duced for血at joumal an engagmg COm‑
as Timony smgS Ofseemg
Pilation CD called Mn∫icβom N房ure.
五nal course) above a rider on a big white
(COM
a Star On its
B
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S
s album Stat妨0クγ Grのpe in the last
t realize that
血e Cowboy
RIuck
9の, On banjo, aCCOrdion, and dar‑
inet, is a BU alun皿us. Herewi血our apoIo‑
gleS tO血e Cowboy and his fins.
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Perspec七ives
併棚庵R研
There wasn,t the impact there should
ice. Just the clean, White, Slighdy imper‑
have been. Then I blacked out for a frac‑
fect sheet ofice.
tion ofa second ‑ nO mOre than that.
I,ve never really studied the replay・
He
d known it was a bad situadon. Almost
Over the next few months) in血e hospl‑
before anyone else, Dad knew Because of
tal, it was probably shown to me ten
What he
d always said when I was a kid.
Certain responsibilities, and lib‑
times. But I was always m my bed
erties)血at o血er players my age
the television was some distance away,
always had. My whole career) I
didn
t have. I sharpened skates
and I never saw it clearly・ What I could
bounced back up. I
forfa血er
my dad,ran血e
and sometimes
$ince my
rink, Idrove
had
See,血ough, trOubled me. I hit血e end‑
helped from the ice. I
the Zamboni. I picked up some extra
boards with my helmet, and when I was
bone. Never had stitches. Never missed a
and
αGet up! You
re not hurt. Get up.,, I
d always
d never once been
d never broken a
money cleanlng血e locker rooms. When‑
falling, my body was out ofcontrol. It
ever the schooI was dosed for a snow
WaS gOmg Whichever way lt Wanted, 1ike a
lously healthy So) Ofall those people in
game due to IPJury. I
d always been ridicu‑
day, I would call a friend and the two of
Stuifed scarecrow someone had tossed
血e crowd
us would spend the day playmg On the
OntO血e ice. It wasn,t a natural fall at all.
else血at I wouldn
ice by ourselves. In the evemngS, ifmy
I don
unless I couldれget up. And without a
homework was done and I felt in the
Not now
mood) I
d take血e keys to血e rink and a
bucket ofpucks
and would shoot for a
t like to watch it. I don,t watch it.
the ice. I went to get up
and there was
nothing. Nothing. You can,t describe it.
a plywood board I
A split second earlier I
d hang from the goal
I Ioved skating by myself担e feeling of
t have been lying血ere
WOrd to my mom or to Tobi [Roy,s sis‑
When I came to, I was face down on
COuPle ofhours on血e Shooter Tutor ‑
血at had four holes cut out of血e comers.
Dad knew better血m anyone
d been light and
fast and powerful, full ofjuice, and now
there was nothing there. It was as if
ter], he
d risen from his seat and walked
doun to血e edge of血e rink.
lもu Mr・ Roy)
someone asked him.
負nlp・ナウ
̀̀Travis is asking for you.
He was escorted onto the ice. He tried
exhaustion before bed that came from
my head had become disengaged from
to sound relaxed
a good hard workout. I loved血e sounds
my body・ I was tuming the keym the
face on血ings) because … Well, What else
tO Put血e best possible
One PerSOn COuld make on the rink: the
lgnltlOn On a COld winter mommg, and
COuld he say? He was almost as scared as I
CrunChing of血e ice beneath your blades;
the bat亡ery was completely dead. Not a
WaS. I heard his voice before I saw him.
the clang ofa puck hitting the post;血e
SPark.ナust click, and no血ing. And right
αHey) boy・ Let
echoing ofa shot off血e boards;血e crlSP
away lt PaSSed through my mind I was
hockey game to play.
PrObably paralyzed・ Strange, that. I
tle,血ough.
Slap ofa slap shot, aS血e blade of血e stick
SmaCks the ice
then
a millisecond later,
d
never heard of such an mJury in hockey,
%Dad,
s get gomg. There
I said? αI
s a
The tone was gen‑
m in deep shit.
makes contact with血e puck. I Ioved the
but it was one ofthe丘rst things mtO my
I almost never swore around him.
SWishing sound ofthe puck hitting mtO
head. And just as quickly, I knew it was
Around anyone. And for a moment my
the net. That
OVer・ Eleven seconds after my丘rst face‑
fa血er didn,t know what to say Never in
Off; college hockey was丘nished for me.
my life had I seen my dad when he didn
s what I remember best
When I血ink of血ose nights alone on血e
rink: the sounds. Hockey sounds.
I was lying with my chin on the ice,
t
know what to say.
and my head tilted slightly to the side.
The defenseman tumed to retrieve the
PuCk from the comer, and I had him
lined up with pretty good speed. Con‑
trolled speed. I wasn
before I got there
t charging. Just
血ough) SOmething
happened. I can,t say what. I was too
excited) Perhaps. Too pumped up.
Something. I don
t remember losing
my balance, but I deflected offhim.
Most ofmy field ofvision was only the
A few days after my surgery, I had my
ParentS Pu11 out the spelling board.
Patiently proceeding letter by letter, I
managed to spell血e phrase
αIs血is it?
I knew I was paralyzed. I
d already
gathered I was gomg tO be paralyzed
for a long tlme. But I didn
t know how
Iong. No one had told me exactly what
my hopes for recovery were. Tbbi,血e
nurse who
d been explainmg hospital
動物り毒RγわのJ印ho徽0彬iタグ物e Col‑
PrOCedures all along, Said
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know ifyou
短We don
t
re gomg to be able to move
your ams and legs again. This is where
血e五ght starts. Okay?
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