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...acclaimed history-teller says. “Analysis is a combination between good storytelling and analyzing the past....The combination of the two is really what keeps me going.”Elkins’ intellectual passions come across in her teaching.“She just has boundless energy,” says Bethany L. Hoag ’06, who took Historical Studies A-21, “Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World,” taught by Elkins. “I left lecture every time with my hand hurting...
...Staring at the spire of Memorial Church, marching to the rhythmic peals of its hourly bells, I would contemplate my travels beyond these steely gates: my post-Harvard future. In between rushed hellos and smiles of recognition, I would recall my loftier aspirations, the now-shriveling kernels of my boundless childhood dreams. Unsatisfying classes and inaccessible advising cast shadows on my brightest desires...
Take this post from the blog Boston Confidential: "Miss Viswanathan’s story is based on her own life, a tale of an ultra-achieving Indian girl whose ambitions seem boundless and whose (apparently) Machiavellian methods are perhaps too eagerly rewarded by over-indulgent parents." Replace "Indian" with another category (besides "East Asian," which has a similar reputation)—try it with, say, "French"—and this claim doesn’t quite make sense...
...just said whatever came into our minds.” She remembers that Altman encouraged them. “He kept us going and he was unafraid, and it made us unafraid,” she says.Altman also maximizes his actors’ talents by shooting essentially boundless scenes, full of uninterrupted stretches of dialogue during which characters speak simultaneously. “There’d be long, meandering takes, and all I could think was, ‘Surely he’ll say ‘Cut!’’” says...
...turns 70 in September and has already served two separate terms as prime minister, Berlusconi is well-suited to returning to the role of billionaire opposition leader, with his boundless energy and appetites. During two exclusive interviews with TIME, in July 2003 and June 2004, those singular qualities of "Berlusconismo" were on full display...