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...scholarly and close-knit environment that Harvard fosters have made Shields’ experiences especially rewarding...
Marvin has been successful in creating the immeasurably close community of the Holden choruses due to his sincere interest in developing close relationships with his students. “He genuinely cares about the students in each of the three groups,” says Kristina R. Yee ’10, the Radcliffe Choral Society Historian. “I think that Jim is a very fatherly conductor figure...
...Cracks,” a dark little tale directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of director Ridley Scott) and set in a girls’ boarding school in the English countryside, all is outwardly beautiful. And how! Lips in the film, which are usually pouting and receiving of loving close-ups, are deepest crimson; as sensuously undulate as the verdant hills in the background. The water in which the girls take their diving lessons is always sparkling, set in such a contrast to the gray stone of the school that it makes the harmony of colors sing. Everything is shot with...
While the upperclassmen were sailing in the weekend’s big intersectionals, a pair of rookies stayed close to home, taking second place in the all-freshman Priddy Trophy, hosted by Mass Maritime...
Elsewhere, Williams recollects his relationship with an old mentor. “I suppose I understand now what drove him: all artists know times when the gates close, / or when everything you continue is despoiled by haste,” he writes. As Williams revisits his earlier memories, he eloquently shows the thought process behind his revisions of his understanding of his own life. Though as a young man the actions of his mentor seemed unfathomable, from this end of his career, Williams is able to understand the older writer’s paralyzing lack of confidence...