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Secretly, society has a fascination with the enigmatic, dynamic, and unreported events of the all-boy prep school. The HRDC’s newest drama, “The History Boys,” rips this mystery wide-open with a witty, yet tense, tale of eight English schoolboys as they prepare for their college entrance exams. As “Oxbridge candidates,” they must face the reality of adulthood, while their flavorful, poetical English professor Mr. Hector fights to protect the boys’ playful youth.Ostensibly, Hector (Ilan J. Caplan ’10) parallels...
...action film Watchmen as part of CEB’s Dinner and a Movie, a few dozen spectators sat at the edge of their seats to see the finish of the Harvard women’s tennis match. Not only was there action at the Murr Center, but drama...
...Drama gripped the gallery, as the doubles matches were all highly competitive battles...
What is it about violence that we find so alluring? The cult of the slasher film, once considered a perverse, transgressive genre, has morphed into the unapologetic torture-porn fad. The genre of television detective drama has collapsed into gore-fests like those featured on “CSI.” Violence has become the stuff of the banal, and yet retains its mystic and exotic appeal. Valentin Groebner, one of Germany’s up-and-coming historians, takes a look at this phenomenon, grounding it centuries ago in the visual culture of the Middle Ages. Groebner?...
...monotony of the proceedings made many eyes glaze over. Only Bernard Madoff's nasal explanation of how he pulled off his scam provided drama. Looking down at his statement and avoiding eye contact with any of the victims, the most hated man in America said he was "deeply sorry and ashamed" for what he had done...