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...Boston University CRs endured a barrage of criticism for sponsoring a “Whites-only” scholarship, ostensibly to lament race-based academic preferences. A month later, Tuft University’s conservative journal, The Primary Source, generated a hullabaloo over an unfortunately irreverent mock-Christmas carol, “O Come All Ye Black Folk,” written in opposition to diversity-minded admissions decisions...
...paint.” The paint is almost impossible to see; as Khandekar points out, it is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.These specks drew world-wide attention on Jan. 29 of this year, when Khandekar, Fogg Associate Curator of Modern Art Harry Cooper, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art released a report declaring that some of the samples contain pigments that had not been used as artists’ paint until 1996.Khandakar’s samples came from...
...Still, she didn’t come out of creative writing courses empty-handed. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia and eventually ended up at Princeton, where she is an associate professor of creative writing on a small faculty that includes Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison.Hellman, who is taking her fourth creative writing course this semester, has been hoping to write a creative thesis for years. She just submitted her proposal for a series of nonfiction pieces that include tales of kidney stones and parental reconciliation.Hellman first decided that she wanted to write a creative thesis...
...films at the HFA demonstrate, the cultural anxieties of the Cold War did not confine themselves to a single genre. The semi-documentary “Panic in the Streets” (Elia Kazan, 1950), the noir masterpiece “The Third Man” (Carol Reed, 1949), and the low-budget sci-fi romp “Rocketship X-M” (Kurt Neumann, 1950), are equally suffused with dread, uncertainty, and black humor...
...Engel wonders why Frank sprang into action in April 1941. After all, the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands since May 1940. Did the situation suddenly turn more desperate for Jews there, or did Otto Frank sense personal danger? Engel suspects the latter, referring to a theory first raised in Carol Ann Lee's 2003 book, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, which reported that a member of a Dutch pro-Nazi party was blackmailing Frank. After Otto was heard making a remark showing skepticism of prompt German victory, on April 18 the blackmailer requested a payoff. Twelve days later Frank...