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This was undeniably a ground-breaking period in Harvard's age-old history: established power was thrust aside in an institution which generally demanded--and received--respect for traditional authority. Many of the issues which this campus is grappling with today--minority representation in the Faculty, the University's continued affiliation with ROTC and the desire to assure individual rights without inviting victimization--first boiled to the surface, in dramatic fashion, during and after the takeover...
...Apple Circus's new Medicine Show, currently appearing in Boston. Even the circus's venue is special: an enormous free-standing tent covered on the inside with stars and decorated with all the circus trimmings. The show is the Big Apple Circus's attempt to revive the age-old genre of a traveling medicine spectacle, combined with their "intimate" one-ring circus. All in all, the Big Apple delivers an entertaining diversion but not without a few strange interludes...
...age-old advice given to aspiring writers is to "write what you know." In one sense, New Mexican author Tony Hillerman has done that very well; his accuracy and skill in portraying the Navaho religion and culture in his best-selling mystery novels has won him the "Special Friend of the Dineh" award. But the name of the award is important: Hillerman is not of the Dineh, and in choosing a Navaho narrator, he enters a potential mine field the old adage is designed to avoid...
...proposal by the Graduate Student Council (GSC) has reinvigorated an age-old conflict between graduates and undergraduates about the idea of pre-registration...
Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a line-by-line translation, my version of The Odyssey is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language...