Word: critic
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Fielding questions from moderator Joseph W. Zeigler ’60 in Sanders Theatre, a sculptor, a music critic, a playwright, and an arts trustee extolled the liberty fostered by the arts...
Having travelled across Europe to conduct research on female composers, Cecelia A. H. Porter ’60—a critic for The Washington Post—said that her ability to reap the benefits of art was supported by her family’s encouragement...
...mostly I enjoy having a wealth of academic opportunities. Not in the classroom, of course but in talking to my peers. I have a friend named Kyle who is literally a walking Oxford Classical Dictionary, which is wonderful, because I hate carrying my Oxford Classical Dictionary to Starbucks. "Critic and commentator Kenneth Dover was so impossibly prolific!" Kyle says, sometimes, before people seize him by the dust jacket and shut him with excessive force...
Goldstein seems to be overlooking the very real people in between her extremes. Where is the celebrated Princeton philosopher Saul Kripke—a real life Azarya, who taught at MIT while a Harvard undergrad, himself an observant Jew and critic of materialism—and where is Harvard’s own Hilary Putnam, who writes on Jewish thought and prays at Harvard Hillel, or Francis Collins, the head of the Human Genome Project and a believing Christian...
...She’s definitely her own harshest critic, but in a way that really makes her strive for excellence,” Roberts said. “She’s never satisfied with her own performance—she’s always looking for ways to get better…I can’t wait to see how she performs in the last [three] weekends of Ivy play...