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...difficult to pinpoint a clear star of the show. The vocalists were by no accounts extraordinary, but their performances displayed obvious musical talent. Patrick W. Hosfield ’05, in the title character Candide, looked the part. With a suave red sweater and cheeks of the same color, an earnest gaze and gentle gait, Hosfield adeptly assumes the character of Candide. Even more impressive is the acting range that Hosfield displays, deftly switching between naively optimistic and violently belligerent expressions. In a number of sad solos and in one great temper tantrum, Hosfield plays his part with an unnaturally...
...rats, for example, we know that the male retina has more cells designed to detect motion. In females, the retina has more cells built to gather information on color and texture. If the same is true in humans, as Sax suspects, that may explain why, in an experiment in England four years ago, newborn boys were much more likely than girls to stare at a mobile turning above their cribs. It may also help explain why boys prefer to play with moving toys like trucks while girls favor richly textured dolls and tend to draw with a wider range...
Rest assured, Sax says: none of that means women are, overall, better than men at perception. It just means the species is internally diverse, making it more likely to survive. "The female will remember the color and texture of a particular plant and be able to warn people if it's poisonous. A man looking at the same thing will be more alert to what is moving in the periphery," he says. "Which is better? You need both...
Summers couldn’t apply the understanding he had about anti-Semitism when it left the range of his own experience. Certainly, putting oneself in the shoes of someone whose secondary sex characteristics or skin color are different is not something one can do with an economic regression. It’s hard to have such awareness; we all make insensitive comments without meaning it, and we all take our privilege for granted at times. We learn how to treat other people with understanding only through experience...
Mather House Co-Master Leigh Hafrey, who served on the team that helped design the space, emphasized the efforts taken to reflect the building’s dependence on exterior light and color in the project...