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...starts with graduation and ends with death, might find the beginnings of guidance in the directive written atop Dexter Gate. Sure to be repeated ad nauseum in the coming weeks (its biweekly appearance in this column’s title was just the beginning), it reads, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.” Seeking further guidance, the graduate would find none; the instruction offers little insight into how, exactly, we are supposed to “serve better” once we depart...
...used to frown upon columnists who threw themselves narcissistic going-away parties in prose, but it turns out that the temptation for retrospective justification is irresistible. And so as I depart, I leave you with a pithy summary of my long project in the form of an admonition: Don’t forget the technology. Don’t forget the transformative influence it has right now, and never underestimate the long-term importance of future invention and progress...
...this gut-wrenching ambiguity in swaths across the entirety of his film, driving it home like a stake through the heart. Pity is perhaps the most lasting emotion “Kekexili” imprints upon the viewer: Pity for the women and children who cry as their men depart for the mountains, pity for the terrible price one man’s vendetta wreaks on lasting comradeships, and pity for the total abuse of the men who strive to protect the irrevocably-tainted innocence of this so-called “virgin” wilderness. “Kekexili?...
...Inyang M. Akpan ’07 and graduate student Angela Liu GSE ’06. Choreographed and performed by Learning from Performers’ visiting artist Rachel A. Cohen ’95, the last number of Act I used props in such a way as to depart from any previously identified form of dance performance.Cohen forced a new spin on the mundane with her study of movement with household objects like robes and flowerpots. Cohen’s unabashed eccentricity speaks to her professionalism (as no current student piece was as daring), as did her acrobatic skill...
...suppressed people has risen up in courageous protest against a remote and autocratic monarch who repeatedly unleashed a brutal police on them. But the longer the demonstrations for democracy go on,the greater the danger that the mass movement turns into a tyranny itself. By Monday, the U.S. State Department ordered all families and non-emergency staff to depart the country...