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...history of comic books. In 1982 Moore--who also wrote Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--began publishing an almost unbearably dark series of comic books set in a dismal, dystopic future Britain ruled by an oppressive Orwellian government. V for Vendetta starred, instead of a superhero, a bitter, brilliant, at least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face of Guy Fawkes. (Who--again, if you're English--you know as the proto-terrorist who tried and failed...
...overall, the episodes are as acute and thrilling as the past five seasons. Chase continues to resist the TV standards of closure and lessons learned. Instead of epiphany and reconciliation, he gives us self-deception and bitter, hilarious irony. More than once, Tony says out loud how fortunate he is. The realization is not nearly as profound as he thinks it is-it doesn't lead him to be any more humble or generous or less self-pitying than ever. But as a simple statement it is probably the most honest insight about himself he's ever...
...years old. It was a reminder of how young he was—just 41—when he became president in 1971. If you think Harvard is in “crisis” now, it was nothing compared to the mess Bok inherited: a university divided, bitter and exhausted by battles over the Vietnam war, including the infamous decision by his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey ’28, to call the cops into the Yard when students occupied University Hall. By the time my class arrived on campus in 1975, Bok’s calm and deliberate...
...anonymous submissions to an online blog. It materialized on stage “without a hitch,” according to one of the directors, Catherine P. Walleck ’06. In one of the monologues, a group of students waits for the late-night shuttle in the bitter cold. The shuttle dispatcher asks one of them, “What are the genders of the people in your party?” To avoid confusing him, she answers “Uh, we’re all female,” which infuriates her friends, among them...
...entire categories of academics (such as women in science) and, probably most important, vetoing tenure cases that had been elaborately assembled by individual departments. It looks as if the collapse of his curriculum-reform effort, which ended with a report calling for almost no core requirements, led to the bitter departure of yet another dean, which set off the endgame of his presidency...