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Visions of a bleak future tend to fall into one of two categories: the sleek, soulless, machine-driven version, or the post-apocalyptic, totalitarian version. Both styles of dystopia got an airing in “Bradbury and Beyond,” which ran at the Loeb Experimental Theatre from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2. The performance, which was produced by Sarah E. Stein ’08 and directed by Marielle E. Woods ’08, adapted two short stories by Ray Bradbury: “The Veldt” and “To the Chicago Abyss...
...dream that one day our sons, admitted to Harvard as legacies, will be judged by the content of their character and not the presence of their penises (or by the fact that their fathers were the two greatest inventors of the 21st century). Yet we awoke to a dystopia, in which every aspect of campus social life is determined by gender...
...we’ve reached a point where a University Professor can complain of that awful dystopia where the “names and dates [of historical events] were chiseled in stone.” This attitude is chief among the reasons why undergraduates are so devoid of a broad historical narrative in which to situate the little nuggets of ephemera they receive from the hodgepodge of Harvard history classes. It’s this condition that makes History 10a’s mission is more vital today than ever before...
...Fight”—like Eisenhower’s farewell address—is a jeremiad warning of a future in which the institutions erected for our defense rule rather than serve our society. This Orwellian dystopia seems closer than ever to reality: in the film’s closing moments Jarecki captures Richard Perle, with an entourage of arms manufacturers in tow, strolling through the corridors of the Pentagon to finalize yet another weapons contract...
...gorgeously funny." Much has changed about the movies since then, but great films have always got the magazine's attention. Here, from film critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss, is the best film of each decade since Time began. Metropolis 1927; Fritz Lang Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future - and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of cgi, his dark vision remains unsurpassed. Dodsworth 1936; William Wyler A tycoon goes to europe and eventually sheds glum responsibility (and a ditsy...