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...time you read this, that monstrosity downtown will have some name—something I am not prepared to predict—flashing on its LED display, beckoning spectators outside with electronic lights, and ricocheting off the walls from some nuclear sound system. And just in time to host the Lakers tonight...
...Harvard students feel strongly enough to organize a boycott of a $10 gift (which I believe is a noble and worthwhile display of political activism), why are we so quick to keep paying the Corporation $40,000 per year? It seems to me that if we really wanted to make a statement, we would boycott Harvard entirely, not just the class gift. That’s right: don’t go to class, barricade administrative buildings, disrupt the operations of the University, and sure as hell don’t sign away any more of your money...
...owners of the seventy-odd Japanese scrolls and objects currently on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum do not speak Japanese. What led Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, the collectors, to purchase their first piece in the 1960s––a scroll by Jiun Onko from the 18th century, which hangs in the exhibition––was its similarity to the aesthetic of modern art, especially abstract expressionism. This is the connection that permits a non-specialist to even approach the doors of the exhibition. “Marks of Enlightenment, Traces...
This sense is amply on display during our interview and the Pudding ceremony, where Robbins free-associates political quips that are never pedantic. At one point, talk turns to Embedded, a film Robbins made from a play that he wrote and directed last year. After describing Embedded’s cast of characters—shady pols leading the nation to war in Iraq, tamed journalists, and a trio of soldiers—Robbins could easily opine further on the heavy matters dealt with in the play, or whine about the very mixed reviews critics gave his theatrical production, which...
...whether or not the Crimson is visually representative of the student body. They randomly selected students pictured in the daily and FM, then pulled the most flattering shots of them, the college facebook photos. The freshman week style gaffes of the group’s subjects were on full display in a survey that asked other students to rate the hotness of the subjects...