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...been centered on honing her craft. “Freshman fall I discovered that I didn’t want to be a math major,” says Bendorf, who proceeded to create a special concentration: Dramatic Literature and Practice. She describes the concentration as over 50 percent English Literature, with supplementary courses in acting, stage design, dramaturgy, and other performance-based classes. She even enrolled in a one-on-one tutorial about Stephen Sondheim with her advisor, Professor Robert Scanlan. “What other Dramatic Arts courses are there?” says Bendorf...
...wild move at the time,” says Friedman. She knew she wanted to work in the business, but decided against conservatory training. “Everyone in the industry that I knew told me to go to a liberal arts school,” says the English concentrator with a secondary in Dramatic Arts. “I thought maybe they were telling me that because they didn’t think I was going to make it.” However, Friedman seems to have underestimated her own talent...
...inspiration has always come from my teachers. Throughout high school my English teacher, seeing something special in my writing, encouraged me to continue writing, and so I did,” says Justin T. Keenan ’10. Keenan, a member of the Harvard Book Review, The Harvard Advocate, and Harvard’s poetry magazine, the Gamut, has seen several of his stories published on campus, and recently submitted a collection of stories as his creative thesis in the English department...
...Keenan attempts to maintain the style and content of his work despite expectations he has encountered. “I think there is a real disparity between what I think about when I write and what you are taught to look for in your English classes, or what the Advocate looks for in the Fiction board...
...Cracks,” a dark little tale directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of director Ridley Scott) and set in a girls’ boarding school in the English countryside, all is outwardly beautiful. And how! Lips in the film, which are usually pouting and receiving of loving close-ups, are deepest crimson; as sensuously undulate as the verdant hills in the background. The water in which the girls take their diving lessons is always sparkling, set in such a contrast to the gray stone of the school that it makes the harmony of colors sing. Everything is shot with...