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...fourth movie, for example, an entire scene is dedicated to a female character trying to spy on him in the bath, and all the action scenes glorify his physique. In transfer from page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse, the supporting actors—creepy Alan Rickman and noseless Ralph Fiennes—are beautiful people who have fun dressing down...
...more intimate setting. Matthew A. Opitz ’10 said he was surprised when he came to Harvard that more people did not discuss these serious issues. “A lot of times, when people do address questions, they do so from a very narrow framework,” he said. “[In a forum] like this, you can take a step back and look at things from a broader point of view.” Mojdeh S. Kappus ’08 said she enjoyed the event because it brought together a wide range...
While the report of the Task Force on General Education has identified American history as instrumental in “help[ing] students understand this country as a heterogeneous and multifaceted nation situated within an international framework,” it again overlooks the necessity of providing students with an introductory course in American history. The time has come for Harvard to acknowledge that there is a big gap in our education—and to fill...
...subjects with such prize sentiments as “Fuller was unafraid, unafraid of her own brilliance and not afraid to be bitchy.” Even the facts of “Bloomsbury” feel like contrived elements in a poorly written script. Cheever’s framework for the book breaks the interaction between her subjects into four sections of 12 (very short) chapters each. Every few chapters follows a different central characters through the same cluster of years and experiences, which results in a mercilessly irritating repetition of events. Cheever claims in her introductory note that...
...occupy a comfortable place at the center of contemporary James biographies for years to come. Richardson is especially good at tracing particular James theories from their first gestations to their eventual appearance in published form. As Richardson puts it, while it may seem that James’ later philosophical framework was formulated far after his early interest in psychology, many of his later themes—religious experience, the meaning and use of “truth,” and the benefits of pluralism—are clearly indicated in James’ writing even before the publication...