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...those voices came back and I think the two main female characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns were kind of inspired by my collective sense of what women in Afghanistan went through, particularly since the withdrawal of the Soviets and the breakout of anarchy and extremism and criminality. (See Art from war-torn Afghanistan...
...taught us very practical approaches, like how to consider different perspectives in the theatre, how to consider color, and how to go about rendering your set design concept,” says first-time set designer Stephany Y. Lin ’11, who cites Art Nouveau designs as inspiration for her concept.“‘Iolanthe’ has a very fantastical, imaginative premise, so I wanted to create a sense of other-worldliness,” Lin says. The first act is set in a forest, while the second takes place in London, although...
...central question the book raises is how much inhumanity is justified in the cultivation of a talent--especially in an age when (as Naipaul is shrewd enough to realize) writers are judged on the basis of their personality more than their art. Even as he turned himself into a bespoke English gentleman, after all, while Pat became the obedient and self-denying Indian wife of legend, Naipaul's strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French...
...Like any art, or work, one hopes to reflect back who we are and what we’re doing and tell something about ourselves. If it gives some insight——you can’t always get to the heart of the matter——but if you can show some insight into the people that are so talented and so wonderful, that we can admire, then we can learn something from that, I think it’s great that it can play back into our lives. Because, really, this...
...mind. Lewis, known for her collection of poetry “Zero Gravity,” spoke on behalf of the Radcliffe Institute during a lecture entitled “The Health of Poetry,” this year’s Julie S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Art and the Humanities. Throughout the talk, Lewis explored the association between sadness and poetry. “What distinguishes poets from the rest of society is that they offer themselves to a state of mind that usually only monks do,” said Lewis, who is the Mildred Londa...