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...Aryan describes most of the southern and eastern European and Asian immigrants that crossed the oceans with the Siegels, Shusters, Kahns and Kurtzbergs in the late 19th and early 20th century. For the Pulitzer-prize- winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, World War II-era superheroes embodied the American dream shared by the countless foreigners. "It wasn't Krypton that Superman came from; it was the planet Minsk or Lodz or Vilna or Warsaw," wrote Feiffer in his essay The Minsk Theory of Krypton. "Superman was the ultimate assimilationist fantasy...
...other two Harvard students recognized, Kristin S. Kim ’09 and Timothy M. Parent ’09, also work as organizers for Project East, a showcase of Asian designers...
...Valentino, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, but less recognizable are names like Jen Kao, Mary Ping and Thuy. “Project East,” a fashion show organized by Timothy M. Parent ’09 and Kristin S. Kim ’09, will showcase Asian designers and aims to raise awareness of the thriving Asian fashion design scene.The idea for “Project East,” which hits the runway tomorrow, was formulated in the summer of 2006 while Parent and Kim were in Korea. “We happened to meet up [while...
...nritta” (pure dance) and “abhinaya” (pure emotion). “Kalpanam: Classical Imaginations” hopes to showcase the level of technique required for Indian classical dance, while expressing a sense of responsibility for preserving tradition. Tomorrow, the Harvard South Asian Association will bring Bharatanatyam, as well as other South Asian dance styles, to Lowell Lecture Hall in its third annual production of “Kalpanam.” Dance pieces will be interspersed with instrumental and vocal music from both Northern and Southern India. While “Kalpanam?...
...eventual defection to the United States. “His personal anecdotes really gave a face to what we read in the papers about the North Korean regime,” said Ian M. Miller, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences focusing on East Asian regional studies. Near tears by the end of his speech, Kim received a standing ovation from the still-packed auditorium...