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...sage street performer singing for his supper. For its many scene transitions, the show too-frequently utilizes the Johnny Cash song “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” a catchy, yet repetitive tune which rather abruptly jerks the listener out of eighteenth-century France and into the bluesy world of the American South...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Danton’ Drags Painfully Toward Death | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...late Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 in August. This endorsement from the nation’s first female Speaker of the House is an important advantage in the race against opponent Attorney General Martha Coakley who, if elected, would be the eighteenth woman to serve in Congress and the state’s first female U.S. Senator...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: House Speaker Backs Capuano for Senate | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...provocative covers). Replace “God” with “genius,” though, and the impertinent question remains just as pertinent. Last Thursday, Harvard’s Center for European Studies hosted a talk titled “On Genius and Geniuses in the Eighteenth Century.” At ease at the head of the Cabot Room’s oval table, a tan, tweed-clad Florida State professor delved into the religious and cultural roots of Enlightenment conceptions of “genius.” But throughout the presentation, the unspoken question...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: A Word's Worth | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

Visiting professor Jonathan N. Lipman ’69 spoke to a room of 30 students last night in the Lowell Junior Common Room about the striking diversity of Islam in China, as part of the ongoing Eighteenth Annual Islam Awareness Week. Organized by the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), the week consists of five days of events—from April 6 to April 10­—that aim to inform the Harvard community about the practices, beliefs, and cultures of Muslims on campus. According to HIS president Na’eel A. Cajee...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Talk Kicks Off Islam Awareness Week | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...currently the oldest gate in Harvard Yard, designed by the New York firm McKim, Mead & White. The gate was the first Harvard structure built from what is now referred to as “Harvard brick,” used to ensure that the gate would resemble already extant eighteenth-century buildings in the Yard. The University requested that the gate, along with future buildings, only use a distinct type of hand-made and wood-burned red brick.The Guardhouse, also referred to as the “Gatelodge,” was constructed in 1983 and designed by Graham...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What You Didn't Know About the Yard | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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