Word: aspects
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...holding the next year’s finals in the winner’s home country. On some level it was a noble decision to pretend that Nigeria was capable of hosting a beauty pageant just like any other stable country. But there was also a very selfish aspect to this choice. The organizers were so determined to improve the pageant’s reputation that they were willing to endanger the safety of the contestants and the Nigerian people...
...this journey Promethea follows the Kabbalah, AKA "The Tree of Life," a Hebrew glyph of ten interconnected numbers laid out like a hopscotch pattern. Dedicating one issue to each "sephiroth," or number, Moore imagines each one as a real place corresponding to a part of our solar system, an aspect of divinity, and a card in the tarot deck. As Promethea travels to each realm she learns more and more about the nature of man and divinity...
Another timeless aspect of the piece sure to draw in the audience is Mark Blitzstein’s score, which attracted both Hosfield and producer Rebecca F. Rubins ’05 to the show, as it did a young Leonard Bernstein ’39 who directed the piece at Harvard in 1939. “The music is fascinating—strange but beautiful,” explains cast member Abby A. Carlin ’04. And the work as a whole, as Rubins points out, is a unique piece of musical theater, with music interwoven into...
...proposed change to housing policy is only one aspect of the group’s larger campaign to make Harvard policies more tolerant of the interests of transgendered students...
...know that’s one aspect I have to work on because I will not get as many easy shots this year,” she said...