Word: formalisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pretentious, white collar institution,” Zhang says, “Instead, this side of Harvard is spontaneous, fun, and clever.”While spoken word maintains a presence at Harvard with organizations such as the Spoken Word Society, rap still hasn’t found a formal way to enter the Harvard culture. OUTWIT is the sole public forum for freestyle rap battles on campus, but the continued interests that students have expressed towards the competition suggest that an underground force for the art form exists. Most of the competitors began rapping before high school; after coming...
...Received no formal schooling and, by 15, was working odd jobs full-time to help support his family. Joined the anti-Apartheid African National Congress...
...relentless experimenter. His plays might conflate the action in several rooms in one stage space or go backward in time or branch off into different permutations, but his formal ingenuity is matched by his ability to create incredibly vivid, fully realized characters who live on even after they've left the stage. The multiple perspectives prove it: Norman, the randy assistant librarian who puts the moves on two sisters-in-law, reveals new sides in each room, scene and play...
...accepted to write a creative thesis. “I’m fortunate that there is a creative track in the English department that allows me to prioritize writing.”Fine, now in her third fiction workshop with Senior Lecturer Bret A. Johnston, acknowledges that the formal deadlines of a workshop are helpful in sustaining her writing. “There is so much going on that I can’t find time to do things if there isn’t a school pressure,” she says. “I would probably...
...think that’s over now right? Didn’t Coleman concede that?” Says Richard Liu ’11. Not so fast. Another pesky Minnesota state law does not allow the secretary of state to issue a certificate (granting formal victory) until all lawsuits have run their course. Senator Coleman has filed several lawsuits, the most recent of which actually resulted in increasing Franken’s lead to 315 votes. Now that the lower court has declared in favor of Franken, Coleman is going to the state Supreme Court, and if that fails...