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...commit acts of horrific violence “inhuman” does not do justice to their complex situation, Uzodinma Iweala ’04 said yesterday at a reading of his critically acclaimed first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” in the Barker Center. More than 60 people turned out to hear an excerpt from the new work, which tells the story of a African child soldier. “The person who is doing the killing is still as human as you would be if you were in that situation...
Playwright Paula Vogel is inspired by hallucinations. During her lounge-style interview with approximately 20 Harvard students in the Barker Center last Thursday, the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright and head of Brown University’s Graduate Playwriting Workshop described her own writing process, which usually includes seeing an image and then “hav[ing] to write the thing [in order] to get it out of my head.” The Harvard production of her play “Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief” started last night at the Adams House Pool Theater.Before...
...answer.” Towards the back of the studio, rowdy cheers erupt from his Harvard buddies, who appear startlingly out of place in the sea of elderly women.“Hello, Edward,” leathery host Bob Barker greets him.“How you doin’, Bob?” Donato returns with a grin so wide his face might snap.“Are you from a university or a college?” Bob asks, at which point Donato invokes the old favorite, “Yes, I’m from Boston...
...SHOES English shoemaker Barker Black is trotting Stateside. Its premiere is an ode to old British lancers, bearing the regiment's skull-and-crossbones logo. Bottega Veneta uses leather as canvas this season, perforating cotton-lined featherweight capretto lace-ups. Inspired by Andy Warhol's loafers, Paris bootmaker Berluti has patched and darned its new line...
...W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research celebrated the opening of its new home at 104 Mount Auburn St. yesterday. The Institute, which was created in 1975 and which Gates has directed since 1991, previously had offices spread out across campus, including one spot in the Barker Center. At yesterday’s open house, Gates extolled the “synergy” that would result from having all of the Institute’s diverse activities and research programs “under one roof.” “All of the fragmentation...