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Robinson says that the University's inability to fully address minority needs on campus, especially after the randomization policy was initiated, is particularly hypocritical in the context of what she sees as the University's continued implicit acceptance of finals clubs...
...Most people who attended already knew what Kristallnacht was, but it brought a deeper awareness and helped put it into the context of what's happening in the world today," said Justin P. Finnegan...
...Pudding space to a broader spectrum of Harvard theater, it has also helped start the "Rocking the Boat Theater Company." Rather than a company with the goal of producing a specific kind of production, the company is more a way to help shows that don't work into the context of other preexisting campus groups, making it easier for shows like Guys and Dolls to go up in the future. The production was strongly supported by the OFA, and also by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who has been a strong proponent of opening the Pudding space...
Possessing an eye for the paradox of incongruity, Boyle places some well known figures from both literature and real life into out-of-context situations in his stories ("Robert Jordan in Nicaragua," "I Dated Jane Austen," "Hard Sell"). Yet somehow out of a situation which initially seems as gimmicky as Dennis Rodman comes dazzling observations on life. In "I Dated Jane Austen", the fraility of dating is shown in a stunning expose of the narrator's exploits with the famous 19th century author. The Ayatollah Khomeini is the subject of an image makeover in "Hard Sell...
Appreciating the Weimar exhibition in this historical context is essential. In fact, The Laboratory of Modernity exhibition was actually organized to complement Eric Rentschler's Weimar Cinema class (German 155). The works themselves are usually not beautiful. Karl Hubbuch's drypoint, profile portrait of The Schaefer Sisters shows the ugly sister fastening a necklace around her prettier sister's neck. The sisters are ably sketched, but their averted gaze, their isolation on otherwise white paper, and the blunt utility of Hubbuch's composition combine to give the viewer a queer sense of detachment, which prevents wholehearted admiration while simultaneously intensifying...