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...word in Catullus’ elegy. Rather than attempting a simple translation, Carson displays entire dictionary entries on each Latin word in sequence with its appearance in Catullus’ poem. For the word “aequora,” for instance, she not only includes the direct definition??“a smooth or level surface”—but also an example of its usage, the translation of which is: “have we made it across the vast plain of night?” By including these long definitions alongside...
...together and share ideas, feeding already-established passions and sparking new ones. Frustrated with the “intellectual parochialism” she sees at Harvard, Lavin wants people—herself included —to feel free to abandon the “pre-formed self-definition?? that makes many scared to venture outside their specialties...
Confronted with a smorgasbord of “drawings,” one can’t help but wish that the scope of “Drawing: A Broader Definition?? was slightly narrower, or at least more focused. Tucked away within the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the small in-house exhibition takes a kaleidoscopic view of its subject, and spans six millennia and nearly as many continents in 66 objects and 2 rooms. The show is now on display at the MFA through May 4, 2008. In the exhibition’s introductory text, Clifford...
...think that being a serious scholar and being an artist are not opposed,” she says. “I’m not trying to be a professional artist. I like the idea of working against the division of labor, especially in Barthes’s definition??that what we need to do as intellectuals is unlearn. Learning something new and loving the process is important for me so I don’t become in essence, framed...
...only see the light through that “progressive” melange of tolerance and understanding. And to cure them all, there will have to be heaping mounds of understanding: as it happens, 57 percent of Americans—“homophobes” by definition??consider homosexuality “against God’s will,” according to a Los Angeles Times poll conducted last year...