Yvonne Rainer
Laura M. Slatkin ’68
May 24, 2001
Maureen McLane is a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows. Yvonne Rainer is a visiting lecturer in VES. Laura M. Slatkin is an associate professor of classics at the University of Chicago.
Phelan’s Dismissal Tragic
To the editors:
I don’t know what happened this year in the Carpenter Center. What I do know is that the soul-searching at VES goes back at least as far as the early 70s, when I was a concentrator. Where else would professors gather their sophomores for tutorial and ask them earnestly, “What should we be teaching you?” With the possible exception of a few expository writing classes, no other part of Harvard attempted to teach creative production. The lack of any model whatsoever created an uneasy hybrid between Germanic rigidities and American existential voids.
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