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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...hadn’t even heard of Sutzkever, a famous Yiddish poet, until I had shopped a Jewish Studies class, and it was my Google Reader that led me to Auchincloss, a lawyer and social observer. As a government concentrator at Harvard, I was never exposed to these cultural contributors. As I read about these men, a part of me regretted my failure to recognize their accomplishments while they lived, and a part of me admired and, at the same time, felt sorry for the obituary writer who had to select the most important and interesting moments of each person?...

Author: By Alina Voronov | Title: The Dead Writer's Society | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Many of the works on display in the MOBA galleries are accompanied by tongue-in-cheek wall labels that cite a laundry list of famous artists as possible influences, mocking art historical commentary, and criticism. One label, for instance, compares “The Lady with Big Pants” to Goya’s “Nude Maja,” while another pretends that a painting entitled “The Last Dance” may be, “an atypical, late work by iconoclastic French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOBA Changes Trash to Treasure | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...addition to the documentary, “No Distance Left to Run” includes a superb live recording of the first of Blur’s two Hyde Park gigs. The band are in absolutely phenomenal form, moving through a diverse greatest hits set that includes their most famous songs while featuring astonishing performances of lesser known tracks like “Oily Water” and “Trimm Trabb.” The concert is the perfect accompaniment for the documentary, proving once again how remarkable and joyous the reunion was. At the beginning...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blur | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...band also continues to experiment, as on the song “Cumberland Gap,” where the twanging of a banjo surprises listeners as it accompanies Stewart’s vocals, both moving over the same notes in unison. The song is a reworking of a famous folk tune named for a pass in the Appalachian Tennessee, an origin which reveals another of the group’s diverse influences: bluegrass music. Though it’s the shortest song, “Cumberland Gap” stands out as one of the album’s shining...

Author: By Michael E. Danto, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Xiu Xiu | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...think it’s inevitable to compare us,” Emily muses about her famous sister. “But what’s really bad about being compared to an Olympic gold medalist...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skating a Thin Line: Emily A. Hughes '11, U.S. Figure Skating Olympian | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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