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...might be tempted to abandon the whole Nativity story as "unhistoric," mere theological backing and filling. Or one might take a broader view and, like the constantly evolving scholarship, look anew at these stories and what they tell us not just about the birth of Jesus but also about how his message was spread. "It's virtually impossible to reduce the accounts to a single core narrative," contends L. Michael White, University of Texas at Austin religious historian and author of From Jesus to Christianity. But that may not be the most important point. "What jumps out at close readers...
Genie is the story of Mooney O’Tooley (Rowan Sheldon ’08)—a nerdy freshman with intentions of starting anew who falls in love with Sweetie Connors (Sara Jayne Blackmore, a student at the New England Conservatory). Frustratingly, she is an heiress afflicted with multiple personalities, each of them out of his league. Dejected, he heads to a bar to drown his sorrows; while there, however, he discovers a soulful and mischievous genie in a bottle (La’Tarsha Long on Dec.15 and 19 and Anita Murrell on Dec. 16-18, both...
...anniversary celebrations mark the passage of time, Huyghe’s project provides the opportunity to look anew at the Carpenter Center’s position in the university—especially in terms of its role as the focus and birthplace for the instruction of the visual arts. In his filmed puppet show, Huyghe makes what may be one of the strongest statements in his presentation of a modern allegory of the artist and his institutional patron, bound by the strings of inflexible bureaucracy...
Donald, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln, describes Lincoln as a solitary figure, “a very lonesome man who had only one very close friend in his lifetime.” But with We Are Lincoln Men Donald thought anew about a controversial set of questions of personal character, romance, and political maneuvering...
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? exists in this vein of informed literary analysis for (quasi) popular consumption. Bloom wrote much of an original draft, but later discarded it and started anew. A life-threatening health crisis—when he was, as he said, “sliced up as so many people”—made him re-examine the work and the importance of literature to himself. After “being at the gates of death,” Bloom said, “I took one look at the book and simply wrote...