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...What to look for: The first solo endeavor of a brand-new company, this show will introduce tap dancing as an entertaining and professional dance style. The group aims to present every kind of tap dancing, which wont be hard: TAPS has 14 talented dancers, most of whom have spent more than eight years tapping seriously. With such impressive background and talent, TAPS dancers are sure to choreograph amazing pieces...
This analogy of fashion to literature allows Hollander one of her chief weapons in her struggle to make fashion criticism as respectable an endeavor as literary criticism. She insists on the personal and inward aspect of fashion, the poetic dimension, rather than seeing, as fashion's attackers do, mindless conformity to a current mode of consumption. For Hollander, clothing is "the conductor of the most intimate and personal dispositions, not only feelings but aesthetic choices with personal historical significance--not only the wearer's immediate surrounding world but the style of his self-perceptions within...
...group that I believe is doing the most to draw together Christians of different backgrounds and experiences. But there is so much more work to be done to achieve unity. I challenge the leaders of all the Christian groups at Harvard, and offer my own services in this endeavor, to create an infrastructure among the groups...
Many years ago, Simon Blackburn tried to teach me philosophy, an endeavor I suspect he found rather frustrating. If he had written this book back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas...
...project and some of the initial opposition to the idea, was genuinely thought-provoking. Her main theme was that leadership often involves taking on a project when everyone else believes that you're wrong, and she used the White House Project as an example of such an endeavor. Fundraising efforts for the project were somewhat hindered by the nature of the program--one which rises above both political parties and the money which flows from those parties. The candidates on the ballot are split fairly evenly among liberals and conservatives, and the clear focus of the project's effort...