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Remember those Christmas Eves spent in the monochrome glow of ABC’s airing of the Capra classic “It’s A Wonderful Life,” with all the rapt huddling, the luminescent self-forgetting that entailed? Or, for the sake of universality, “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”? I don’t, really—usually someone fell asleep midway through, or a fight broke out—but I’ve found a commendable cognate in YouTube...
...slalom and 44th in the GS. For the Nordic events, the Harvard men edged St. Lawrence in the 10K freestyle, a first in recent memory. In the Crimson’s first long race of the season, the men’s Nordic team skied a 20K classic at the Oakhill course, one which many experienced Harvard skiers had never faced. The eventual winner of the lengthy competition previously skied for the German National Team. The Crimson put up a good bid, with sophomore Trevor Petach in 48th and co-captain Oliver Burruss in 49th. With senior Andrew Moore finishing...
...Keene's enchantment with Japanese literature began when he stumbled on Murasaki Shikibu's 11th century classic The Tale of Genji in a Times Square bookshop in 1940. The hero Genji is a sensitive aristocrat who pursues beauty in a world he knows more readily offers sadness. With the news from Europe full of Nazi advances, Keene writes, "I turned to it as a refuge from all I hated in the world around me." The translation was by Arthur Waley, a British polyglot who was also a famed translator of classical Chinese literature. Keene eventually befriended him, and years later...
...either an overused analogy for the war in Iraq or proof that Kravitz is so devoid of ideas that he’s begun borrowing political topics, not just guitar riffs, from the ’60s and ’70s. Kravitz has shown that he knows classic rock inside and out, but it may be unreasonable to expect anything new from him. —Reviewer Jeff W. Feldman can be reached at jfeldman@fas.harvard.edu...
...struggle for the ideological soul of the party. It may, however, be a struggle for the party's demographic soul - older voters vs. younger, information-age workers vs. industrial and service workers, wine vs. beer. There is also - and I will try to tread lightly here - the classic high school girl/boy differential: the note-taking, front-row girl grind vs. the charismatic, last-minute-cramming, preening male finesse artist. Both Clinton and Obama have difficulties reaching across those divides, and that is where the fear resides: neither candidate may prove strong or broad enough. As this campaign progresses, their weaknesses...