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...Daniels has tracked down many previously untapped sources among Young's relatives and fellow musicians), it feels curiously inert, without any of the narrative drive you would expect in a biography of as vivid a figure as Lester Young. And while the author shows great enthusiasm for highlighting the context of Young's life (with interpolated essays on everything from the African American oral tradition to the history of marijuana), when it comes to narrating that life, Daniels sometimes gives the impression that he's less than interested in telling the full story...
...attracted to the idea that you could have in the MAC a facility that’s part athletic and part social in a broad context and is open long hours,” Lewis said...
...relationship with the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)—it supports students who serve but not ROTC itself, due to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of discrimination against gays. In this context, the recent Undergraduate Council bill that encourages cooperation between professors and military officers to make relevant Harvard courses fulfill military course requirements is a positive step—it will help cadets without undermining the University’s moral position...
...Californians who sneak in food and gear, rationalizing that pioneers would have cheated to survive if they could have. (The Brookses, a young interracial couple, are neighborly and mellow, and thus get relatively little screen time.) The couples clash over purity of lifestyle, rules and personalities, all within a context of earnest communitarianism. It's like the most fractious food co-op ever...
...community can interact on a daily basis. Goldstein wrote in an e-mail, “It is necessary to provide places in which public art can be properly situated, and it is essential that these not be restricted areas because by the very nature of public art, context is a key component.” Meghan M. Brown ’05, another of the “Place and Site” artists, has a slightly different take. “There are so many spaces that Harvard could use to display art, but doesn?...