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Women's liberation, then and now
Feminism, from my generation to yours
Call me an old reactionary if it suits your purposes. But it was my generation, beginning in the late 1960s, that did the real heavy lifting of the women's liberation movement, against much stiffer odds than feminists face today.
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An editor's mea culpa
An apology about sex abuse
Let me face up to what's been keeping me awake nights these past weeks: My advice to women about how to deal with predatory males was ignorant, insensitive and hurtful, not to mention useless.
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About my column on sex abuse
Broad Street Review under siege: Lessons from a controversial column
My recent column on female responses to male sexual abuse unleashed a firestorm of angry mail and demands for my dismissal and worse. Since my role at BSR is to provoke discussion and educate myself, you may well ask: What have I learned from this experience?
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Male sex abuse and female naiveté
What should women do?
This is the controversial column on female responses to male sex abuse, for which I later apologized.
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Producers vs. critics: Two questions
What's it all about, theater folks?
Two questions I didn't have time to ask the theater producers at Broad Street Review's symposium on theater critics really boil down to one: Why, ultimately, do you do what you do?
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The Orchestra's vanishing audience
A financial crisis, or a marketing crisis?
The Philadelphia Orchestra has lost 40% of its audience since Riccardo Muti departed. That statistic begs a fundamental question: What's the point of balancing your books if you can't sell your product?
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Doing good through dance: My father's story
He found his niche, through dance
Rebecca Davis and Ashley Fargnoli, two 20-something dance activists from Philadelphia, head for the world's hot spots armed with choreography. My dad did something similar nearly half a century ago, when he quit the rat race to start a dance company, for his benefit and the world's.
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Symbols and the Orchestra: Three examples from the "90s
What Police Chief Timoney understood (and the Philadelphia Orchestra doesn't)
Before you dismiss the value of symbols, consider their use at three institutions: the Philadelphia Police Department, the Philadelphia School District and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Gentiles and the new American Jewish History Museum
But is it good for the gentiles?
What is a museum of American Jewish history doing on Independence Mall, when there's no museum there for Brits, Irish, Germans or African-Americans? There's actually a good answer to that question.
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The Orchestra's bankruptcy and the Pew connection
The Orchestra's failure and the elephant in the room
What's more dismaying— a Philadelphia Orchestra board that abdicates its responsibility to its creditors, or a major arts funder that shrinks from making artistic judgments?
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