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Richardson's account of the origin and initial responses to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is a masterful combination of narrative and art criticism. He traces Picasso's inspiration back to an 1863 essay by Charles Baudelaire in which the French poet declared, somewhat arbitrarily, that carriages in the Bois de Boulogne and brothels were the two acceptable subjects for the "painter of modern life." The five female figures nakedly displaying themselves in Les Demoiselles are fairly obviously in a brothel, but Picasso, characteristically, was not content simply to do something that others had done before...
...class require you to count alligators? Do you have to dive for a frisbee while walking through the Yard? (On second thought, don't answer that.) Some might say Harvard intramurals should reflect the necessary competitive skills for Harvard life. We could easily have a library scavenger hunt, essay-draft basketball played in a suite with crumpled-up essay drafts, or my personal favorite, floppy disk fencing, where the last person whose disk retains its sliding disk guard in place wins. We definitely could--but we shouldn...
...will conclude this essay of theories, ideas, and observations with a few facts. The registrar reports that 55 percent of Harvard undergraduates are male. The male-to-female ratio in the aggressive, hunter-filled government department is 61 percent to 39 percent, whereas the male-female ratio in the English Department is exactly the reverse--39 percent male, 61 percent female. I don't pretend to know what this means, if anything, about gender differences. I leave that to the psychology majors. Just a little food for thought...
...essay "Science and Original Sin," Robert Wright puts forth as scientific fact a genetically based theory of psychological egoism. It is a weird piece of dogma. Although no sane person would deny that we humans harbor some pretty horrible tendencies and that these have some genetic basis, it does not follow that we are biologically driven to commit the seven deadly sins or that when moved by compassion, "we are in some Darwinian sense 'misusing' our equipment of reciprocal altruism ... into (unconsciously) thinking that the victims of famine are right next door and might someday reciprocate." I believe that there...
Zeynep C. Fetvaci '99, Woodbridge Society secretary, agreed and added that "writing an essay that tries to tell all about yourself can be especially problematic when English is your second language...