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Adam Goldenberg’s column “Nightmare on Garden St.” (Dec. 16) offers a skewed, injudicious perspective on the opinions of Quad residents and the issues of Quad life. Below are responses to the author??s more flawed points...
...Concerns that affect one quarter of the upperclass student body should be addressed, despite the fact that the author considers them “trivial distractions.” Just because a particular population is in a minority, should its opinion be ignored? The author??s senseless statement reflects a larger-scale obliviousness to the importance of minority representation, whether that minority be economic, racial, sexual, or, in this particular situation, geographic...
Organized drunkards from the A.D. and other final clubs of both genders treated the Harvard campus to a disruptive and disrespectful chorus of screams two nights ago. Many students—including this author??were woken up in the small hours of the morning and kept awake by new choruses for an hour or more. A number of us had work to do the next day, including midterms, theses, and job interviews...
...alum’s name from University records. One of the expelled students committed suicide. Another killed himself 10 years later.Wright has contributed mightily to our knowledge of this dark episode in Harvard history. And, to some extent, he warns us before his forays into fiction. In an author??s note, Wright forthrightly discloses that “with the dialogue in chapters 3 and 7, some liberties have been taken.” He continues, reassuringly, that “in all important aspects, however, the information in these scenes is based on known facts...
According to the author??s interpretation, Caravaggio’s modernity lies in his ambitious manner of portraying “a flawed and imperfect nature.” He grabbed “Gypsies” or courtesans on the street and made them his models. He painted overripe fruits and people with down-to-earth faces and expressions. His saints almost stepped out of the canvas, into the art galleries of the rich patrons who commissioned his paintings. The style she finds, of flaws leading to near-perfection, almost mirrors the portrayal of the artist?...