Articles by Section: Essay
1 A Modest Generation
May 1, 2005
So what do we call ourselves? As labels for a generation go, The Silent Generation always struck me as singularly stupid; I don’t think we…
Birth of a Feminist
March 1, 2005
I left Brooklyn in 1954 at age 17 and headed for Cambridge, suitcases jammed with pleated skirts, twin sweater sets, loafers, and bobby sox. I…
'Cliffe Notes
May 1, 2002
Arriving I left Philadelphia for Radcliffe by train on a September morning, family all gathered at the station. I promised my stepfather I…
Who Are You, Anyway?
July 1, 2001
I remember when my younger sister Charlotte received her acceptance letter from Harvard. I shrieked and performed an atavistic dance of sibling…