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...from having some things like overhead storage space.” The building houses a range of departments: neuroscience, bioengineering, particle physics, and biophysics. But it is not only Harvard sciences that are making use of the space. Kate A. Borowitz ‘11, a concentrator in English and American Literature, relaxes on one of the modular red sofas in the basement lobby as she waits for her Justice section to begin.Though she laments that the building is a “long way to walk from Adams,” she says that she may return after sections...
...flawless cross-cultural translation for what it is—an impossibility—and therefore embraces the inevitability that both textual and non-textual images will have vastly dissimilar impressions on viewers of different tongues and backgrounds. The unfortunate and unfair byproduct of not being born in an English-speaking country is that one cannot naturally create visual art using the ‘cultura franca’ of the day. China may have been blocked off during the Beatles, not have been there for New Realism, and then prevented from being part of Pop Art, but that doesn?...
...Salvador, was exiled because of his socially conscious opinons. “Senselessness” is based on the atrocities of the 40-year Guatemalan genocide and the human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins...
...When I first went to China in 1985 they were celebrating this holiday,” said Anne L. Fessenden, an affiliate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Fessenden taught English in China for four years in the 1980s...
...American writers are “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture” and that “you can’t get away from the fact that Europe is still the center of the literary world.” But in interviews yesterday, English professors at Harvard responded heatedly to the accusations, calling Engdahl’s comment misguided and uninformed. “Mr. Engdahl’s unfortunate statement seems to stem from a certain historical and literary myopia,” English professor Werner Sollors, a specialist in American literature, wrote...