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...uphold these ideals in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union began to repress artistic expression. The artistic norm of the day was social realism, which “was charged with the task of constructing representational scaffolding for the projected reality awaiting Soviet citizens,” curator Anna Wexler Katsnelson wrote in the pamphlet accompanying the exhibit. The idea for this exhibit was conceived ten years ago as Norton T. Dodge, who received his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1960, began a conversation with the director of the Davis Center, Tim Colton. After traveling to Russia...
...Bettie Page was the Garbo of bondage movies. Granted, Greta Garbo played Camille and Anna Karenina, while Bettie played Bettie - or, as it was usually spelled then, Betty - in five-minute, 8 mm epics with titles like Betty's Clown Dance and Dominant Betty Dances With Whip. Garbo, in Hollywood, had Irving Thalberg, the prince of MGM, as her boss and protector. Bettie had Irving Klaw. Calling himself the "King of the Pinups," Irving and his sister Paula ran a seedy Manhattan emporium called Movie Star News, which peddled celebrity glamour shots to the public and specialized photos and loops...
...enter their last exam-free December, many students on campus are enthusiastic about the calendar reform. “It’s better because we won’t have to worry about exams over winter break. We get to have closure before break,” said Anna J. Murphy ’12. Bonnie Cao ’12, echoed this sentiment. “Then winter break will actually be a break,” she said. “Now, I’m going to go home and see all my friends and they?...
...been, suggesting that battling slavery can be effective. He emphasized that although enslavement is still prevailing in every continent except Antarctica, it is solvable. Within Harvard, there have been recent efforts to respond to the problem of global slavery. This fall, Kelli K. Okuji ’10 and Anna M. Kamerow ’11 co-founded Harvard for Free the Slaves, a pilot chapter of Bales’ organization. “Modern-day slavery is happening even in America now,” said Kamerow, describing a case of a man from Texas who took kids from...
...operetta, the fairy Iolanthe (Bridget Haile ’11) has been banished from fairyland for the awful crime of marrying the Lord Chancellor, a mortal. Her half-fairy son, Strephon (Aseem A. Shukla ’11), falls in love with the beautiful Phyllis (Anna Ward), the ward of the Lord Chancellor (Matthew C. Stone ’11). But the Lord Chancellor will not consent to their marriage because he, as well as many in the House of Peers—a satirical portrayal of British Parliament—are in love with Phyllis. After the fairy queen...