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Last Saturday, before Harvard’s first ever Crossword Puzzle Tournament, FM sat down with Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times’ daily crossword, to talk about Rubik’s cubes, the English lexicon, and the word “ucalegon.”1.FM: Are you excited about the tournament today? WS: I am excited about the tournament. If you go back twenty years, crosswords were thought of as an old person thing and most people who created and solved puzzles were basically fifty and older…Now there seem...
...theory and philosophy as autonomous works.“I’m looking forward to taking a course just on Derrida. Period,” she says with a laugh. Vasiliauskas seems to know that her planned course of study might nauseate the average theory-starved English concentrator, but she keeps her feet in the world of literature through her poetry writing and editorial duties.“As an editor, I’m in a position to get to read more student poetry than most other people on campus,” she says of her positions...
...Everybody Going? While the mass departure of French citizens from their Gallic motherland may be noteworthy and alarming, the possibility that this phenomenon is by no means unique to France was not given justice in your article [April 16]. For proof, you only need to look across the English Channel at my homeland. Despite the overwhelming attention given to the recent arrival of many immigrants, a disconcerting number of talented but disillusioned youngsters are leaving Britain. There is very little overt racial discrimination and harassment, and there are still job opportunities, but the perfect, rose-tinted perception of a country...
Indeed, it’s interesting to note that people almost always focus on ethnicity instead of other unifying characteristics. The Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, for example, was a South Korean immigrant who grew up in Centreville, Virginia, and majored in English at Virginia Tech. Of course, no one thinks any less of English majors or Centreville residents after the shooting—after all, that would be utterly ridiculous. But somehow, some find directing their anger and frustration at innocent Korean Americans less ridiculous...
...story of “The Way of the World,” written by William Congreve, is, in the best tradition of English stage comedies, highly convoluted, fairly trivial, and resolved by marriage. The details, which remain slightly hazy even after the conclusion, are less important than the characters and their relationships...