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...Ben-Shahar Blame it on his layered accent, his unassuming presence, or his exotic name, but Tal Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology” course, is someone Harvard people love. Class enrollment shows Harvard people choose Justice over happiness, but according to the Q Guide, Ben-Shahar’s students are “HAPPIER...
...also said that the dinner was intended to appeal to students who may not regularly celebrate Shabbat. “We were trying to engage Jewish students in an aspect of Jewish life that they might not otherwise be involved in,” Joselow said. Professor Tal D. Ben-Shahar, professor of the popular class Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology,” gave the evening’s opening remarks. “A lot of what he talks about in Positive Psych and the spirit of Shabbat are similar,” Rohr said...
...Judah Ben-Hur, Heston is still lean; he hasn't quite grown into the Greek physique he'd soon acquire. His thin face is dominated by a high, mile-wide brow, which made him a thinking-man hero - and, in his scenes with Stephen Boyd's Messala, Judah's boyhood friend and later deadly rival, startlingly intense. Gore Vidal, who worked on the script, said that the subtext was that the two men had once been lovers. Heston called that preposterous, but homoeroticism was potent in many epics of the time (oh, those Greeks; oh, them Romans!). Anyway, both actors...
...excitement of that nine-minute horse race, Ben-Hur was long and logy. But with Heston now the go-to hero, it guaranteed that he'd be cast in his finest role: el Cid. In this Anthony Mann film, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is an 11th-century Spanish soldier who tempers force with wisdom, seeking a peace with the large local Islamic minority it is his job to subdue, and preaching moderation in the Court of King Ferdinand. Almost a pacifist warrior, he spends most of the film debating large issues with other beautiful people (Sophia Loren, John Fraser...
...play the role in the 1966 movie version, but lost out to Paul Scofield, who died last month.) Having cut his great white teeth on Broadway, Heston was the rare mid-century movie star who returned to the stage. Laurence Olivier directed him in The Tumbler, the year after Ben-Hur. He did Long Day's Journey Into Night with Deborah Kerr and Macbeth with Vanessa Redgrave.In 1999 he and his wife, Lydia Clarke, read the Love Letters play in London...