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...Learning from mistakes, attempting to repeat one’s successes: Those sound more like accessible middle-class values than like the innate inspiration or providential favor once attributed to exceptional persons. Indeed, as much as Americans treasure the idea of genius—“Baby Genius” and “Baby Einstein” CD lines offer ambitious mothers-to-be the chance to transform their prenatals into intellectuals—we shy away from the suggestion of any hidden Mozarts in our midst...
Light blue shorts-jumpsuit? Check. Pleather lined clear visor? Check. Bright green plaid skirt? Check. Halloween is a month and a half away, but I’ll be wearing this stuff to class on Monday. I can see you silently judging me as I walk—strut—through Lamont cafe, but I know I’m not the only one. Party costumes work their way into the front of your closet, and before you know it you’re wearing a koala head hat just because it’s cold outside...
...fair warning: not all parties lend themselves to daily wardrobe. No one in your English class signed up for Leather and Lace and Literature. And art history would probably be more interesting in a toga, but unless you look like David under that sheet, don’t try to pull it off. And I’m talking Michelangelo’s David, not Donatello’s. Apart from these guidelines, your closet is like Moral Reasoning 54—all is permitted...
Khazei is a member of the Harvard Law School class of 1987 and Pagliuca is a 1982 graduate of Harvard Business School...
...Months after my return to the States, I encountered my first Varma painting while flipping through my high-school art-history textbook. (My class never got to the section on Indian art, which wasn’t covered on the AP Exam.) I would come to blame artists like Varma for the exaggerated deference I’d witnessed firsthand in India. In a country with such a rich artistic tradition, I found myself asking: What compelled a Keralite to adopt a European vocabulary to produce something meaningful and aesthetically pleasing...