Word: carres
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Christopher J. Lee teaches African history in the history department and is a fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute and the Carr Center for Human Rights. He has lived and worked in South Africa, as well as in Malawi, Botswana and Mozambique...
...play’s main plot revolves around Tzara and Carr, who are forced to fake their names and hide their real artistic and political views in order to win the respective loves of the Joyce-admiring Cecily and the Leninist librarian Gwendolen. The themes are the role of art and politics: should one accept a Wildean view of art for art’s sake, a Socialist one of art as political tool, or a Dadaist conception of art as needing to destroy itself? Is war a matter of defending the innocent or of seizing oil wells...
...rare. Not every joke has time to seep through, and some of the more dazzling effects (such as the large sections of limerick dialogues) are de-emphasized in favor of naturalistic delivery. However, much of the humor—particularly the political humor—proves successful, as when Carr innocently asks his butler Bennett whether the recent social revolution in Russia consists of “unaccompanied women smoking at the opera?...
...acting is solid, although opening night had its share of false starts. Henry Carr (Tim M. Marrinan ’06) is a perfect dandy in his 1917 incarnation (although one might have hoped for a more daring pair of trousers than pinstriped brown), but he is hard to accept as the doddering old man of 1974. Ed T. Dean ’04 is noteworthy for his role as Carr’s politically savvy butler, sneaking drinks from the sideboard and constantly rolling his eyes in frustration at his master’s ineptitude. As James Joyce, James...
...Problem from Hell won the Pulitzer Prize and made Power, an Irish-born 33-year-old who is the executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, the new conscience of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment. Though she worked as an adviser to former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark, Power has a nuanced philosophy that is not an easy fit with either party. She condemns the first Bush Administration for not committing military force to stop Iraqi genocide before and after the first Gulf War. But she opposed the second Gulf War. "My criterion for military...