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...expansive slew of topics: a young girl's dawning sexuality, the birth of Romanticism, modern academia, post-Newtonian physics. We've heard he fails to understand women or to create good female characters. But in Thomasina Coverly, a 13-year-old mathematical genius fated to die before her 17th birthday, he has forged a female role any young actress would pine for. We've heard that he is all brain and no heart, and yet by Arcadia's final act, Stoppard has shown he knows enough about hearts to break them...
Thomas, who teaches a unit on Havel'sliterature in Slavic 130b, said Havel might speakon any number of themes. Among those he mentionedare the historical and philosophical connectionsbetween the Untied States and the Czech Republicand how the 17th century Czech playwrightComenius, who was once offered the presidency ofHarvard, influenced western education...
...believe there is a way to create properfacilities that would not take away from thehistorical significance of the Commons," Rossitold the council. The Commons," which was used inthe 17th century as a common grazing field, islocated at the present-day intersection of GardenSt. and Mass...
This week the Crimson takes a break from league play with away games at Vermont, Wednesday, and 17th-ranked Notre Dame on Saturday...
Before the potato came to Ireland, the Irishate clover salad to supplement their traditionaldiet of meat, butter, milk and oatmeal, withvitamin C. In the 17th century the conqueringEnglish, not yet aware that everyone should eatfive serving of fruit and veggies a day, scornedwhat they saw as this uncultured Irish cuisine.the Irish promptly decided to adopt the clover asa symbol of ethnic pride...