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...show hosts like Johnny Carson on his bow tie and not-just-a-pretty-face appearances on network news. The 3-page dispatch was written by Irving himself a few months before he died because, a son said, he didn't want any mistakes. It was also Irving's final sly tribute to his unique image in a medium increasingly defined by sameness...
While reading “Death in Spring,” Mercè Rodoreda’s final work, it is easy to forget how unlikely the publication of the book is. In Francisco Franco’s anti-Catalan Spain, Rodoreda faced not only suppression and exile but the extinction of her native language. Under Franco, Catalan’s very existence was threatened, banned outright in the public sphere and severely curtailed in the private sphere. In this context, while translations of Spanish language novels achieved worldwide fame and renown in the 1970s and 1980s, Catalan writers remained...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, who spoke to the Faculty before the final Gen Ed vote about his concern that students would not have enough room for electives, blamed the administrative upheaval during the curricular review for the number of categories, adding that there was a need for someone to “put limitations on the aggregate and shape it somehow...
After Menand and Simmons submitted their report to the Faculty for discussion in February, they and the rest of the task force decided not to speak at Faculty meetings until the final Gen Ed vote in May. They said wanted to let the Faculty finish shaping the curriculum and feel as though it was their...
Nearly four months after the anticipated debut of a comprehensive plan for House renovations, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds released the final Report on Harvard House Renewal yesterday afternoon in an e-mail to the College community. The report—a compilation of feedback from focus groups, five House Program Planning Subcommittees, and a college-wide survey that was initially scheduled to come out in December—provides an action plan for the next generation of House life and focuses specifically on the areas of academic, social, and residential space. “Our overarching goal...