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...Cary P. McClelland ’02, director of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, produced by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), would instead have his audience believe that it is actually a “pathological exercise in love...
Similarly, it is silly to claim that no one has ever encountered a demon. Consider, if you will, the extensive literature on demonic possession, a supposedly medieval phenomenon that has shown remarkable legs in our disenchanted world. (It’s worth noting that The Exorcist was based on a true story far more shocking and supernaturally charged than any of Linda Blair’s pea-soupy antics.) Yes, it’s perfectly conceivable that every case of “possession” has some as-yet-undreamt-of medical explanation. But it seems possible...
...battered Globe on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Thomas Heffernan describes in rich detail the development of this savage, strange man, and the extraordinary results of his mutiny." Heffernan's book is due out on April 29. A few days earlier, on April 24, Little, Brown will publish "Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe" by Gregory Gibson. The author discovered the notebook of one of the sailors who rescued the men left on the island after the mutiny. Says the publisher, "Part detective story, part American epic, 'Demon of the Waters...
...answer is sure to be the sophomores. From at least reasonable dormitories in Harvard Yard, they have been moved into the unwanted rooms of the housing system—reject rooms of the upper-class lotteries. They are struggling with tutorials in the wrong concentrations, cursing the fifth-class demon of seductive overambition, pass-failing, add-dropping, withdrawing in frustration, and abandoning pre-med for The Study of Religion...
...Rumor has it that Gossip Guy has lost his edge. “This shit just isn’t good any more,” complained Raymond P. Rodham ’03. “I’ve read issues of the Demon that were way funnier, and issues of Diversity & Distinction that had better stories about drunk kids hooking up with inanimate objects?...