Word: fictionalizes
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When I came to Harvard, back in 1993, a committee was preparing a long-awaited report on the Core. It concluded that everybody liked the program and was satisfied with it, though in the minds of everybody I knew this was fiction. I wrote to the committee chair with the observation that the document reminded me of the way the East German regime once cut a bridge to West Berlin in half and went on to name it the Brücke der Einheit, “Bridge of Unity?...
Explaining why the course was appropriate, Popkin said that “Harvard tends to be a nerdy school in general and I’m sure quite a large percentage of students have at least had some sort of interest in science fiction...
...class, along with others that teach students to loiter, virtually voyage the high seas, or read science fiction, is one of a series of non-traditional courses offered this year on a campus dominated by economics and government concentrators. In the recently renovated New College Theatre yesterday, students milled about over fresh, dark mahogany floors awaiting the beginning of Professor of the Practice of Theatre Robert Scanlan’s new class on stage combat. “The first day we sat in a big circle and discussed what we’d cover,” Patrick...
...Sever Hall, Rachel K. Popkin ’08 joined a band of approximately 30 sci-fi enthusiasts for the first meeting of another new course—English 182, “Science Fiction,” taught by Associate Professor of English and American Literature and Language Stephen Louis Burt...
Anyone who has read Ackroyd's bestselling London: The Biography (2000) - or almost any of the 40 volumes of fiction, biography, history and literary criticism he has written since the 1970s - will know that London is his consuming passion, that his reading of history is distinctively nonlinear, and that his use of a word like sacred in his book's title is likely to carry metaphysical rather than religious meaning. Even so, the early chapters of Thames meander in some murky backwaters in search of the spiritual. He summons water nymphs and ancient river gods like Egypt's Isis...