Word: classicist
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...Earth and Planetary Sciences Ann Pearson arrived at Harvard five years ago. She specializes in biogeochemistry.The seven new additions will replace Director of the Harvard Foundation Dr. S. Allen Counter, social psychologist Mahzarin R. Banji, Slavicist Julie A. Buckler, physicist John Huth, historian Lisa M. McGirr, Schreiber, and classicist Richard F. Thomas. —Staff Writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu
...that very moment that I decided that I was not going to pursue being an academic classicist,” Seidel says. “My interest in politics was much greater than that, and I wanted to participate in that realm...
...book is mostly a skillful portrait of the mercurial, infinitely resourceful Kirstein, who is still active, and the half a dozen or so teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
...repeatedly pointed out the misuse to his colleagues. Indeed, “pregnant” comes from the Latin “praegnans” meaning “before being born.” It carries no connotation of the actual event of the birth. A fellow Classicist remarked, “Those hormones must be carrying something else if they induce pregnancy...
Lately everyone’s talking about Kanye West, the man who helped Jay-Z start a new classicist vision of hip-hop in The Blueprint. Initially that record seemed like a triumph of the same underground “backpacker” values in mainstream culture—its straightforward beats and soul samples heralded Jigga’s return to basics and the inner reflection of his own early classic Reasonable Doubt...