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...Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said last week that the potential J-term “is an opportunity for us to offer types of instruction that we don’t offer during the semester...
Like a band of traveling salesmen hawking their wares, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz have gone House to House to discuss their ongoing review of the College curriculum. But there’s something slightly off about their sales pitch. For one, they won’t quite let students see inside those briefcases of merchandise that they keep describing in such alluring terms. There’s a good reason for this: the earth-shattering review we’ve been told about...
...tight budget of $180,000. And certainly, in judging H Bomb by its yet-unpublished cover, Nicolais is right. Oodles of people will read H Bomb—but will they because it contains a “serious discussion of sexuality,” as College Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71 was hoping for? Or will they because the coy “exposé on the demented sex life of the Harvard band” draws chortles? To give a hint, I would just suggest ruminating on the very name “H Bomb?...
Discussion of a J-term actually predates the formation of the calendar committee, which occurred last September, according to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Though violence is the film’s major theme, what resonates from The Passion of the Christ is not necessarily its brutality, but rather the significance of his sacrifice. There are only glimpses...