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...amount of time for a sort of visual gag,” audience member Diana G. Kimball ’09 said. “A minute isn’t a very good length of time for subtlety.” The most successful films were those that didn??t attempt to capture anything grand but instead focused on something quirky and interesting. But there were exceptions. Sharif Abdunnur’s film “Hot Summer in Beirut,” which dealt with the 2006 Lebanon War, garnered some of the loudest applause, demonstrating...
...unfortunate frequency, Harvard’s portraits are ignored by Harvard students; they create an ambience but are rarely examined. When Widener Library was renovated in 2004-2005, the relevance of the portraits that once lined the walls of the circulation room was questioned. “The students didn??t want them back,” Grindlay says...
...children. Because already I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world. I mean, I thought when I was a kid that I could communicate with ghosts by using my grandfather’s old Underwood typewriter, and I thought that if I didn??t put paper in it I could somehow type letters to the dead. I guess what really excites me is the prospect of [cultivating] a sense of the strange and the wondrous. The second was something that [English professor] Gordon Teskey said in a lecture. He was talking about...
...Many have often failed to appreciate the importance of basic knowledge,” Hastings said, adding that scientists should not follow Republican presidential nominee John McCain in deprecating the study of DNA in bears. (While McCain has mockingly said in recent weeks that he didn??t know if the research were due to “a paternity issue or a criminal issue,” Hastings applauded the fact that the federal government has been supportive of fundamental science research in the past...
...company was a graduate of Harvard’s program.“So many professions rely on the power of a compelling story to make sense out of where we are and where we’re going,” Tatar said.WITCHES AND BREAK DANCERSEven though she didn??t see how her interests could fit into Folk and Myth, Arshad decided to stay with it and declared her concentration.“I told the head professor, who is now my adviser, what I was interested in and she said, ‘You can definitely...