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...engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories.” Harvard students are famous for allowing certain categories of learning outside their comfort zones to slip into obscurity—witness English concentrators filing into “The Magic of Numbers”—but this should not happen to religion...
Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English and classics concentrator living in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...music of the orchestra is accompanied by an adult chorus, whose vocals are also complemented by a children’s chorus.While the opera is based on the Shakespearean play, LHO’s “Otello” has bypassed the traditional convention of featuring 16th century English dress styles for a 15th century Mediterranean aesthetic. Stage director Anna Fisher, who works at the Huntington Theatre Company, refers to the set, which is modeled after actual ruins from the island of Cyprus, as having an “earthly aesthetic...
Soft-core porn has rarely been as wonderfully unsexy as in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s thoroughly engaging drama “Serbis.” Rather than exposing the unseen underworld of the sex-for-sale industry, the film—shot in Tagalog with English subtitles—explores the complex moral conflicts that all-too-guilty pleasures cause in a country like the Philippines, itself conflicted by the secular influences left by decades as a Western territory on its actively religious tradition. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film...
...committee’s grand yet vague proposals.“When reports come out and call for very complicated and ambitious changes, there’s an extremely strong temptation to let things sink to the bottom of the ocean,” says Stephen J. Greenblatt, the English professor who chairs the Task Force.University President Drew G. Faust is not likely to succumb to that temptation, however. Lining the once bland, white walls of Massachusetts Hall, home to many of the University’s top administrators and a handful of freshmen, student work acts as a visible...