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...universally acknowledged god of cinema, Lang’s road to directorial fame was an oblique one. Although denounced by Siegfried Kracauer as a fascist in the forties, and then heralded by the French Cahiers du Cinema as an amateur in the sixties, his work has received a surprising dearth of critical attention. It has only been in the last few years that critics have begun to exhume many of his films and give him credit for his important contributions to the history of cinema. With his foreboding and apocalyptic vision of modernity, his keen awareness of the effects...
...juniors and seniors must scramble to compete for an advisor from a much-reduced pool. Although the department has promised that it will import visiting professors, concentrators cannot count on professors who may only be at Harvard for one or two semesters to advise their work. Moreover, the dearth of advisors for history concentrators will have a trickle-down effect on students in related concentrations. Thesis writers in history and literature and history and science will feel pressured to choose their topics knowing that an overburdened history department may not have enough resources to advise them...
Black history in America is intimately related to the history of Harvard. The national observance of Black History Month that we begin today was created by a Harvard graduate. After noticing the dearth of serious attempts to document black history, Carter G. Woodson ’12 began “Negro History Week” in 1926. In the 1970s, that week blossomed into Black History Month. Woodson was a history concentrator and he was only the second African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, 276 years after the school’s founding...
...their expensive prime-time slots. "The network didn't want to point that out," Hall says. Unlike Fox's real-time thriller 24, whose pace is quickened by several intersecting stories (and which neither Hall nor Louis-Dreyfus has seen yet), Ellie feels a little slow, and the dearth of standard sitcom jokes makes it seem less funny than you might expect. Much of its humor is physical comedy, since watching someone in real time means devoting a lot of time to watching Ellie walk, get dressed and generally run around. The format also encourages the writers to develop more...
...their expensive prime-time slots. "The network didn't want to point that out," Hall says. Unlike Fox's real-time thriller 24, whose pace is quickened by several intersecting stories (and which neither Hall nor Louis-Dreyfus has seen yet), Ellie feels a little slow, and the dearth of standard sitcom jokes makes it seem less funny than you might expect. Much of its humor is physical comedy, since watching someone in real time means devoting a lot of time to watching Ellie walk, get dressed and generally run around. The format also encourages the writers to develop more...