Word: crafting
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...from diverse academic backgrounds will prepare a set of recommendations to the President and the Council of Deans. Their recommendations will address the overall structure of the library system, possible technological changes, and ways to address the overlap of library services. “This is an opportunity to craft a different approach to the management of our libraries, one that takes into account the increasing interest in interdisciplinary research,” said Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline. “We need to better understand our colleagues’ needs, and we need to better understand...
...heavy scene until Gray asks his final question: “Why was I the only one that wasn’t circumcised?” he asks. “You weren’t?” his father responds.Gray took his craft seriously, but he looked at his life with a sense humor that kept him from crossing over into the melodramatic. “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell” is a tribute to Gray the person, and more importantly, Gray the writer. It is no small feat that the actors managed to keep...
...prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. "For me that's a bellwether," says Japanese film critic Mark Schilling."A lot of the Academy members live in Palm Springs and go to that film festival. They liked what they saw. I thought they responded to the craft of [the film], and the quality of it." Sachiko Watanabe, a veteran film critic for 35 years, says Sunday's wins herald that the era in which Japanese films are judged with a sense of exoticism is over. "The fact that the Academy Awards recognized this is a big encouragement...
...doubt. Yates' life was as sad as his writing. When he was working on Revolutionary Road from 1956-1960, his marriage was falling apart and he was sinking into hardcore alcoholism. A four-pack-a-day smoker with emphysema, he devoted himself to his craft. "Yates' work was infinitely more important to him than anything in his life," says his biographer, Blake Bailey, whose 2004 book, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, opened a window on the novelist's anguish. "He lived in these squalid apartments, with cockroaches squashed all around his desk chair and curtains...
Professor Jeff W. Lichtman and his team painstakingly craft their colorful masterpieces—but their paintbrush is the genome, and their canvass the brain. Lichtman and his colleague Joshua R. Sanes, both molecular and cellular biology professors at Harvard, are mapping neurons with a pioneering method, dubbed “brainbow” for its psychedelic appearance. Already, the technique—recently honored with a Nobel Prize in chemistry—is shedding light on the development of the human mind, and how disorders such as Alzheimer’s and even anxiety alter the brain...