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The recent release
of the feature film "Sylvia" sent reporters and
reviewers to Sylvia Plath's alma mater for background on
her
college years, commentary on her poems and insights from
her papers.
"In reading [Sylvia's]
journals, [Ted Hughes] wrote a lot of his 'Birthday' poems.
In a way, he learned a great deal about her and what she
was thinking by reading her journals after she died."
•
Associate Curator of Rare Books Karen Kukil, "Seeing
Sylvia Plath," Smithsonian, November
2003
"A lot of people assume
[Sylvia Plath] was a victim, which I try hard to correct."
•
Associate Curator of Rare Books Karen Kukil, "A
death as potent as her poetry," Philadelphia
Inquirer, October
23, 2003
"I always imagined everyone
knew who [Sylvia Plath] was, but then I talked to other students
outside of New England and they had no idea. She still has
that cult quality. There are all sorts of Web sites and online
groups who want to discuss her poetry."
•
Shannon Hunt '04, "Plath's
life remains an open book," USA Today, October
16, 2003
"Most people found Plath wasn't as mentally ill as they
expected. She was much more lucid, a much more complicated
personality than this black and white image you have of her.
And she's also a lot of fun. She was more upbeat than
people think."
•
Associate Curator of Rare Books Karen Kukil, "Endlessly
fascinating, heartbreakingly tragic, the life and death
of Sylvia Plath once again rivet attention," Newsday, October
16, 2003
"Like Virginia Woolf,
like any artist who commits suicide, all the work is read
as a precursor to the suicide. That's
the biggest disservice one can do to Plath. You can't
do without the biography, but you can't let the life
lead the poems."
•
Professor of Women's Studies
Susan Van Dyne, "Does
Sylvia Plath's tragic story, recounted in several
upcoming works, overshadow her poetry?", Chicago
Tribune, October
12, 2003
As
media attention turned to the beatification of Mother Theresa,
Professor of Religion Carol Zaleski provided insight
into a profound but little-known spiritual crisis the renowned
nun experienced later in life.
"The secular interpretation
of all this might be that [Mother Theresa] went out into
the streets of Calcutta and just burned out and lost it.
But this was not ordinary, garden variety, skeptical doubt,
the kind when someone doesn't even have a faith to
lose. There was a meaning to her meaninglessness. And no
matter how hollowed-out she felt, she was still radiant and
expressive of joy."
•
Professor of Religion Carol Zaleski, "The dark night
of a ‘blessed soul': Letters used in consideration
of Mother Theresa's beatification show her struggle
to believe in God's existence," Baltimore
Sun, October 19, 2003
"Here's someone who would go up to a leper and hug him
and wipe his sores and take dying people off the streets – who
wasn't supported by ecstatic spiritual experience throughout
but was running on empty almost. But she was filled nonetheless
with dedication and a sense of fidelity and love that didn't
require her to have these messages from God."
•
Professor of Religion Carol Zaleski, "Mother Theresa
Beatified," Morning Edition, National Public
Radio, October 14, 2003
"I'm in constant contact with representatives of the
Mount Holyoke, UMass and Amherst College Democrats, and
I know the feminist groups on all of those campuses are working.
All of those students are going to get hundreds of peope
to come [to Washington, D.C. pro-choice march in April].
We are really going to do a lot."
•
Smith Democrats President Lauren Wolfe '04, "Women
mobilize for march," Daily Hampshire Gazette, October
21, 2003
"[Howard] Dean was definitely the one that won me over. Beyond
the issues, he's the candidate to reach out to my
generation."
•
Erica Toler '06,
Kucinich, Clark and Dean gain support," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, October 7, 2003
"I never said … that having a high payroll guarantees
team success. Or that having a low payroll guarantees team
failure. Good management is terribly important. Good luck
is also important. The point that I and others make is
that the probability of success goes up appreciably as payroll
goes up. The probability of failure goes up as payroll
goes
down. If you only have good luck and good management, you
can rise to the top but you won't stay very long …"
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Money
Ain't for Nothing," New York Sports Express, October
20, 2003
"Payrolls still matter
very much. But payrolls never were the only thing that mattered.
You need to have good management.
You need to have good luck. But payrolls certainly do figure
into the success mixture."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "A
financial David and Goliath World Series," Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, October 19, 2003
"The one thing going for [the Marlins], obviously, is their
success on the field. What's not going for them is
the country's economic situation. It's a hard
time to ask the public to step up to the plate."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Marlins'
success sparking renewed talks of new ballpark," Miami
Herald, October 18, 2003
"The Marlins are in a
salutary situation by having had a good season and being
based in a market that is growing in terms
of both population and income levels. Their biggest challenge
will be reminding people that this season is different
than what happened after 1997."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Marlins
Tickets A Hot Item Again," New York Times, October
14, 2003
"[The Red Sox] have not
had the ultimate success, but the fans stay totally emotionally
involved. In spite of everything,
the team has been a pillar of the Boston culture for decades
and decades."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "In
Boston, It's Become a Nation of Hope," Washington
Post, October 11, 2003
"New England loves these guys now. If they announce in three
years that ‘we don't quite see Fenway making
it,' they'll have a good chance to work out
a public-private partnership for doing something new."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Sox
Dilemma: Save Fenway or Build Anew?", Wall Street
Journal, October 10, 2003
"Starting a new league
requires deep pockets and a lot of patience. And it also
helps to have passionate, committed
individuals, rather than calculating corporations seeking
to pad the bottom line."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Obstacles
that brought down the WUSA," Marketplace, October
9, 2003
"When you win the World
Series, your players all of a sudden become more valuable.
Very few teams have the money to re-sign
a whole team of World Series victors. The Yankees have
that money."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "SportsCentury:
History of the Yankees," ESPN Classic, Oct. 7, 2003
"The playoffs could represent a nice payoff for a bunch of
guys who spent a lot on the franchise. But it's not
a financial windfall."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "No
financial grand slam: Post-season glory unlikely to pay
off big for Red Sox," Boston Globe, Oct. 3, 2003
"Baseball's competitive balance problem is mostly a
problem of bottom-dwelling teams performing poorly year
after year. If these teams don't have the economic
incentive or the statutory compulsion to raise their payrolls
or invest
more in their farm systems, then they will remain uncompetitive.
The game will go on – but nothing will change."
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "The
Gold in Baseball's Diamond" [op-ed], New
York Times, September 30, 2003
"If anything, hoarders tend
to be avoidant and afraid. …[Hoarders]
usually wind up isolated."
• H.E. and E.S. Israel
Professor of Psychology Randy Frost, "The
Paper Chase," New York Times, October 26, 2003
"Black slavery in Latin America
is the root cause for the existence of Blacks in Latin America."
•
Assistant Professor
of Sociology Ginetta Candelario, "Some
Black Hispanics deny discrimination exists," Miami
Times, October 22, 2003
"In the boardroom there may
be a certain kind of speech, although you can't speak so
well, that you set yourself apart
from your colleagues. But we often hear say that students
need to be ‘bilingual,' that what they say
with their peers may be quite distinct from how they present
themselves
to their superiors."
•
Associate Professor of English
Pat Skarda, "The Spoken
Word," KPCC-FM, October 21, 2003
"It's legally practically impossible
for anybody, certainly after the turn of the year, to come
in and win."
•
Charles
N. Clark Professor of Government Don Robinson, "Clock
Ticking for a Hillary Presidential Bid," Fox
News, October 13, 2003
"[Philip] Roth is an obvious
candidate, if they're ever going to
give the prize to somebody who's been such a scandalous writer. On
the other hand, he's an extraordinarily inventive writer, brilliant,
lovely and utterly accessible prose. I would love it someday if the Canadian
short story
writer Alice Munro would win, because for one thing I think she's clearly
the most innovative and important writer of short fiction working in English,
at any rate, and short-story writers never do win that prize."
• Professor
of English Michael Gorra, "Possible candidates for the
Nobel Prize in literature," National Public Radio, October 2, 2003
"Children using weights
may seem strange, but research suggests strength training
has a lot to offer some teenagers in terms of health, fitness and fun."
• Professor
of Exercise and Sport Studies Barbara Brehm-Curtis, Vitality, October
2003
"[Black sororities] are a wonderful
place to learn how to [train for leadership]. We don't have
that many organizations where you
get to be an insider."
•
Professor of Afro-American Studies
Paula Giddings, "The Sisterhood,
Taking on the Old-Boy Network," Washington Post, September 29,
2003
"Randy Frost, a professor of
psychology at Smith College in Massachusetts, who
is developing a manual for the treatment of compulsive hoarders,
has estimated that hoarding symptoms occur in nearly one-third
of patients with obsessive-compulsive
disorder."
• "Dangers of hoarding all too
real," Sacramento
Bee, September
27,
2003
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