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...order to secure a minute of monitored levitation. Now and then a muddling passerby will accidentally wander into the swing’s ambit and, after a tussle of shouts, duck for safety. Sometimes the swing will make rubber-to-skull contact, and an uncomfortable and embarrassed student will bowl over onto the grass. In the true fashion of a totem, though, the gentle swinging will stir deep memories in all of us—memories of childhoods real or imagined, individual and collective apparitions of an idyllic pastoral existence...
...white gold.” “There were strict secrets on how to create Chinese porcelain, so European scientists and alchemists attempted for hundreds of years to replicate East Asian porcelain,” Hess says. “China was known as the bleeding bowl of Saxony, because Augustus the Strong, one of the administrators, spent so much of the state’s money on porcelain.” Thus, when the recipe for making porcelain was finally discovered in Meissen, Germany, the tiny porcelain figurines were quickly elevated to symbols of power and prestige...
...that fictional), but that the characters’ thoughts are so relentlessly foregrounded that the rest of the work cowers behind them, reduced to obscurity by the intellectual blizzard. Gessen at times nails the details, as when he describes the standard Harvard lunch: “a huge bowl of green peas...a chicken parm sandwich, and...a cranberry-grapefruit mixture, which I’d patented.” But these glimpses of a fully realized literary world are all too often overshadowed by his characters’ ideational monologues. “Literary Men?...
...Super Bowl is known for its prominent and high-budget beer advertisements, which this year took up four minutes of commercial time. While the beer ads that show up during the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) yearly basketball tournament are not nearly as infamous, a substantial portion of its advertising is for beer. According to the organization’s own bylaws, it cannot advertise for hard liquor, but it only puts a cap on the amount of beer advertising that can be shown during a game—a cap that was exceeded in at least...
...time of 5:59.1, and the Crimson followed a boat length behind in 6:02.8. Penn was well behind and finished with a time of 6:35.0.Next week, Harvard looks to capture its first dual win of the season against Dartmouth and MIT in the annual Biglin Bowl races. The Crimson has won the event 44 times.—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...