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Though Barenboim, spoke out in favor of a broad, humanistic approach to both music and education, a small, very specific audience attended his lectures at Sanders Theatre: mainly music students, Harvard faculty, and elderly residents of Cambridge and Boston...
...Though Barenboim spoke out in favor of a broad, humanistic approach to both music and education, a small, very specific audience attended his lectures at Sanders Theatre: mainly music students, Harvard faculty, and elderly residents of Cambridge and Boston...
...that it doesn’t understand what makes Harvard great. It embraces jewels and jetsetters; it rejects the eccentric, the nerdy, and the badly dressed. In 02138, the frumpy physics concentrator who doesn’t know a Manolo Blahnik from a Birkenstock is tossed aside in favor of the Hermes-toting development admit from Greenwich. It celebrates those who parasite upon the Harvard name instead of those who contribute to it. The founder of 02138 says that as Harvard graduates, we share “cultural DNA.” I’m sorry, what...
...instead of being reduced to playing “butlers, maids, slaves and hoes” in Hollywood films. He disparages the success of films like “Driving Miss Daisie,” the story of a dutiful black chauffeur in the American South. Lee repaid the favor to his hip-hop fans by featuring Public Enemy’s song “Fight the Power” in his 1989 classic “Do The Right Thing.” Arguably, gangster rappers have become some of the most conspicuous consumers of Hollywood myth; their...
...Moss's eventual appointment as department head and it also-in a marvelous final twist-relates a fall of sorts. During his career, Moss kept his employer at arm's length not only emotionally but contractually, turning down opportunities to join the government's "permanent and pensionable establishment" in favor of remaining on ad hoc terms. This meant that he retired, at 58, without the comfortable pension that a long-serving official could expect. Neither had he saved the bonuses that were payable at the end of each of his contracts. "I had treated my gratuities as pocket money...