Word: bards
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...Chapter 7 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Hermione is presented with a copy of a book called The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which Professor Dumbledore left her in his will. (Yes, he's dead. Sorry. Spoiler alert.) Because Hermione, like Harry, grew up in a Muggle family, she's never heard of the Tales, which are decribed as Aesop-like children's stories to be read to little wizarding kids. "Oh come on!" Ron says - he can't quite believe it. "All the old kids' stories are supposed to be Beedle's, aren't they? 'The Fountain...
...Tales of Beedle the Bard They made a coy cameo in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and now here they are in full: five funny fairy tales of magic and Muggles, annotated by one Albus Dumbledore. The $100 collector's edition is a splurge, but all profits go to J.K. Rowling's children's charity...
...using the term both figuratively and literally. “You let the story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth anniversary.The novel...
...Well, I think the number would be five or six times.FM: What do you think of it?Achebe: [Laughs] It is a great institution and it is also a very wealthy institution compared to other schools. You are lucky.FM: Currently, you are a professor of languages and literatures at Bard College in New York. Would you ever consider becoming a professor here?Achebe: Well, I think it is probably too late, [laughs] because I am quite comfortable where I am. To see Harvard from that distance seems to be quite useful.FM: When you wrote “Things Fall Apart?...
...East Coast several times in his youth and often made visits to Harvard. His father, James B. Hannah, to whom the exhibit is dedicated, graduated from the College in 1942. At the age of four, Hannah realized what he wanted to do with his life, following this dream to Bard College to study painting. The faculty members there were color-field painters, specializing in the abstract, so Hann ah transferred to the Parsons New School of Design two years later. “I wanted the challenge of verisimilitude,” Hannah says. “There is something...