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...Garber’s newest work, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”—which is also the name of a course she is currently teaching—is certainly in line with the rest of her oeuvre. Garber says that her objective in focusing her attention on 10 specific plays through critical essays that expound on certain universal themes was to explore the interdependent relationship between Shakespeare and popular culture, especially by tracing the playwright’s influence on society as it develops through the ages. “[This book] covers...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bard Plays Lead for Garber | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...History and Literature concentration. “I certainly have found ways to academically shape what I do around food,” Gilberti, who is also a Crimson Magazine writer, says. “I’ve written countless papers about food for classes whose focus is not gastronomy. And the classes about food are there if you kind of poke around.”It has also become increasingly less difficult to find courses relating directly to food as more specialized courses have been created in recent years, including the Anthropology research seminar “Global...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cooking the Books | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...accessibility—that separates this disco from main stage Disco. Perhaps as a result of this hopefulness, many abandoned these ideals for a shot at visibility and acceptance–even if it meant stripping tunes of both layers and intentionality. And so the culture lost its focus. In truth though, the ideals of disco never truly went away, they simply remained dormant, assuming alternative aliases. There was simply too much uncharted territory, too much potential, not to keep exploring. So the style-that-dare-not-speak-its-name came to be known as house music, or simply dance...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Disco Revival: Beyond Gaynor | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...recalled going to sleep early in the evening and waking up in the middle of the night to study so he could focus with the light just for himself...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Green Movement Gains Campus Energy | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Conundrum of Man;” for “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Untimeliness of Youth;” for “Coriolanus,” “The Estrangement of Self;” and so forth. With each focus, Garber effectively channels her interpretations of the modern contexts for these plays so that by the end of each chapter, we not only have a comprehensive understanding of the play’s place in the modern world but also a specific idea about what seems its greatest contribution...

Author: By Samantha C. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shakespeare, 'Tis Modern Culture and Modern Culture, 'Tis Shakespeare | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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