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Bequeathed to Harvard by Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887—an art critic as renowned as he was wealthy—these 94,000 square feet of space house the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Study. The villa’s walls are covered in paintings by some of the top names of the Renaissance, pieces that make it the envy of museums worldwide. The facility garners a mention in most guidebooks to the area (though tours are hard to come by, offered only twice a week to no more than 8 people.) The pristinely-tended gardens, hedges perfectly...
...real proud of Noah,” Kolarik said. “He’s been down on himself more than he should. He’s his own worst critic. But he showed a lot of character by playing the kind of game he did in the second and third...
...that it was louder, more frenzied, than Frank Sinatra's fans had ever been, or even Elvis Presley's. And it never let up: you could hardly hear the five songs the Beatles sang. Three nights later, when the Beatles played two concerts in Carnegie Hall, New York Times critic John S. Wilson reviewed the pandemonium of the audience as if it were the performance and the Beatles a barely audible accompaniment...
...according to Palmer’s description, “renowned historian Howard Zinn,” who is mostly renowned for his socialist screed A People’s History of the United States. MIT professor Noam Chomsky, euphemistically described by Palmer as a “social critic,” compared President Bush’s counter-terrorism efforts to Nazism. Among other idealist guests is “Alfie Kohn, the nation’s leading critic of ‘standardized testing as ethnic cleansing,’” and students will additionally...
Also that month, when Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 resigned amidst a sexual abuse scandal, The Boston Globe reported that Hehir—a vocal critic of the Church’s handling of the scandal—was a “longshot” candidate for the archbishop post...