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...satirical political cartoonist in Soviet Russia, Boris Yefimov drew for the Communist Party's daily Izvestia, among other publications. Some of his more memorable works include depictions of a weakened Germany during World War II. One such drawing, published in 1941, showed a group of frozen German soldiers carrying a coffin labeled "The myth of the invincible German army." Yefimov later turned his eye toward the U.S., creating a cartoon of Dwight Eisenhower laying claim to the North Pole, a drawing commissioned by Joseph Stalin. Yefimov...
...next portrait in the Minority Portrait Project portrays former dean John Monro, will be unveiled at Phillip Brooks House on Oct. 16, and, on Nov. 10, a new portrait of President Drew Faust, also painted by Coit, will make its debut at the Schlessinger Library. “Drew hasn’t seen it yet,” Grindlay says. “It’s really great. It’s very, very successful...
...have to be proficient at an instrument to do that.”Previn also discussed his humble beginnings accompanying silent films on the piano. His recounting of one instance in which he unwittingly played a Tiger Rag in conjunction with a scene of Christ’s crucifixion drew much laughter, as did several of his other forthright comments. “I’ve made over 300 CDs,” he said. “That’s too many.”Many of the audience members stayed around to talk to Previn...
...comparison of art and science. “Both are inquiries into the truth and complexity of life.” Garber’s book comes at a time when Harvard is in the midst of an effort to revitalize the arts on campus. University President Drew G. Faust created a 20-person task force last year to evaluate the role of arts at Harvard. The task force is chaired by fellow English Professor Stephen Greenblatt, in addition to student and faculty membership. The College unveiled new secondary fields in music and dramatic arts, giving more recognition to what...
...stomach turned. Before my eyes was grand old Harvard on parade, splendidly arrayed in academic robes and bonnets, in all of its pomp and pageantry, installing its new president according to the customary prescription. Yet with a few derisive words about Harvard’s Puritan heritage from Drew Gilpin Faust and her counterpart at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann ’71, that visible visible continuity—between the Harvard of the present and the past—was sundered...