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...marked the Crimson’s triumph.However, anyone lucky enough to see Harvard’s performance at Brown’s Stevenson Field would also have noticed something more remarkable than the score—the skills of the Crimson’s main offensive threat, Fucito.A perfect blend of speed and explosiveness, Fucito was especially effective against the counterattack this weekend. Offensively, he led his squad with one goal and one assist. For his performance against the Bears, Fucito earned himself the title of Ivy League Player of the Week.Fucito tallied his first points of the night when...
...musicians were already familiar with one another, so there was little uncomfortable tension before the start of the piece.The performance of the Bartók was lukewarm. In the first two sections (of six), the strings played deftly, but the winds’ sound didn’t blend well and the orchestra sounded thick and almost noisy. In the third section, an energetic dance influenced by Romanian folk tunes, the strings came alive, unified hearty. While the ensemble was well-balanced, its dynamics were often too strong; when the strings attempted to construct a delicate atmosphere, their sound lacked...
...giving way to one in which we can't afford the electric bills. And yet the historians sitting around the table are more comfortable with ambiguity than is a voter heading into the booth. Even in crisis, they say, there is no perfect presidential temperament. "You want the right blend of confidence and humility," argues Yale historian Beverly Gage. "And you want someone who has the confidence to make big decisions, to act in crisis, but who also has the humility to listen to other people, to be flexible in those moments. So when does confidence become arrogance, and when...
Jonathan Carroll’s special blend of novel resists attempts to classify it. It’s not science fiction, nor is it fantasy, nor is it realistic. His newest novel, “The Ghost in Love,” tells the story of a man who is fated to die but doesn’t; his ghost appears to tie up lose ends but finds that his body is still alive. The story is his attempt to reconcile his whole self—ghost, past, present, and future. Carroll, who is to speak at the Harvard Book...
...Jell-O,” in which a husband reveals to his wife that he is gay; she responds that she is a werewolf. Even with the large number of films from varied backgrounds, many of them relied on the same techniques and started to blend together. Stop-motion and fast-forwarding effects were popular with filmmakers trying to pack more time into 60 seconds, and much of the music seemed to come from the same new-age soundtrack with the requisite beeps and static. Not surprisingly, the one-minute format was better at capturing small moments than complex concepts...