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Friends of Jess R. Burkle ’06 call him a “blind man with vision.” And while the senior thespian may not be able to see exactly where he’s going, he’s definitely going places. Burkle has been a powerful force within the Harvard theater community, directing and starring in a number of major productions despite being legally blind. His involvement in on-campus arts recently culminated with his thesis project “Knock: or, the Triumph of Medicine,” a play that he translated...
...director of Expressions.Cloud will present her last piece at Harvard as a part of Arts First. She describes “Visually Impaired,” which will be performed as a part of the May 6 Dance Festival, as a “study in movement for the blind,” where dancers will actually don blindfolds as part of their performance. After graduation, Cloud, a sociology concentrator, will be returning home to New York where she plans to spend the next two years incorporating dance into her teaching at a bilingual elementary school through Teach for America...
...can’t make him love you. But maybe he is blind to Vanessa Williams’ sentiment that “sometimes the very thing you’re looking for is the one thing you can’t see.” Being that it is senior spring, and you two will most likely not be together next year, go for it. Sometimes you truly do “save the best for last...
...calls these things superiority. When the publication of “Opal Mehta” first became known, the $500,000 advance dominated conversation and stimulated admiration and jealousy. The fact that the novel is unabashed chick lit inspired, at most, smiling pseudo-mockery. Harvard turned an indulging blind eye on bad literature and saw only an example of precocious success. Now, we are not so much horrified by the accusations of mortal literary sin as we are conscious of the public scandal and potential reversal of fortune. Contemplating this reaction, it is clear that we share, at least...
...Necessary?,” The New York Times sweetheart Maureen Dowd bemoans this apparent lack of commitment to the feminist cause among so many modern ladies. Increasingly, Dowd fears, women are willing to opt out of careers to be professional mommies, forgoing jobs for juice boxes. These mothers are blind to the tooth-and-nail fights of the generations before them—the fights to have jobs and to hold professional degrees. This recent trend, she implies, is a horror...