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...Fest opened with the three-chord garage rock of Thick Shakes, which quickly gave way to the long, intricate, feedback-heavy compositions of Life Partners. Exusamwa combined manic punk with a performance art aesthetic—Sawyer spent the entire set in a wheelchair, her face bandaged and her voice howling, while her bandmates all wore red-stained OR scrubs—and Quits played experimental noise music. Daniel Striped Tiger played a cleaner, jazz-infused brand of post-hardcore, while L’Antietam’s heavier, more distorted songs featured complex tempo changes and polyrhythms. The audience...
...Spoken Word Society, rap still hasn’t found a formal way to enter the Harvard culture. OUTWIT is the sole public forum for freestyle rap battles on campus, but the continued interests that students have expressed towards the competition suggest that an underground force for the art form exists. Most of the competitors began rapping before high school; after coming to college, they have found few opportunities to practice their skills.For OUTWIT veteran Lev A. Shaket ’10, rap battles were a part of his high school culture in Atlanta. At Harvard, he tries to keep...
Harvard has no fewer than three art museums, two Gutenberg Bibles, and 13 million volumes in its library system. But, in spite of all this, it has yet to acquire the one thing that many undergraduates would most wish to see—a student center. In fact, what might be the closest thing the campus has to such a venue—Lamont Café—is located in a library. Therefore, in its prospective plans to investigate a purchase of 45 Mt. Auburn Street—the building that formerly housed the Democracy Center?...
...boundaries of their young existence, Thurber’s formulaic characters don’t have much to grow out of.Art Bechstein (Jon Foster) comes to his fabled summer a little late. Fresh-faced, clean-shaven, and forever dressed somewhere along the spectrum of white shirt/jeans to blue shirt/chinos, Art is a recently graduated economics major planning to work in finance in the fall. He needs adventure, and soon—lest his life become as boring as he has set it up to be. Judging from his blank stare throughout the movie, he’s already beginning...
...class years, generations, concentrations, and involvement in the Harvard community, attendees of the programs vary in their experience with, and exposure to, poetry. Davis says that the various individuals who visit the Poetry Room often strike up friendships after attending events. “Poetry is an inherently synthesizing art form,” she says. In addition to being a social catalyst, poetry, according to Davis, is especially important in a university setting where students are taught specific methods of thinking. “Poetry is a permanent place for questions to reside, free of all the answers...