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...consulted with the people in University Hall about precedent, and they said we couldn’t legislate on that,” said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, one of the three who drafted the legislation...
...reasoning behind choosing to adapt “Hansel and Gretel” for this year’s performance. “We decided that we liked Germany,” says Birnbaum. “Last year, we did British accents, and this year we thought German ones would be funny.” The group draws its name from the small area in Radcliffe Yard known as the Sunken Garden, which has served as the troupe’s outdoor theatre for the past decade. Now in its 11th year, the show is firmly established...
With a kind smile and bright demeanor, Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 doesn’t seem a likely match for the cryptic, tenebrous Paul Celan, a mid 20th-century German-Jewish poet who famously wrote works about the Holocaust. Nonetheless, her thesis explored what she terms “ineffability as a philosophical problem” in Celan’s work, or “how to talk about what you can’t talk about.”As a co-Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Gamut, a poetry editor on Persephone...
...Coast in 1972. “I had been at Harvard for six years. I really wanted to get away,” he says. “I had been reading Beat literature, so I went to Haight-Ashbury instead of going to Europe to study with some German composer. I went the opposite direction.” It would be a time of immense creative growth for Adams. “I spent my twenties in wanderlust being ill defined. I didn’t write my first mature piece until my thirties,” he recalls...
...from print, to television, to toys.“In a concentration like that,” she says of folklore and mythology, “you get unusual people and they go off to do unusual things.”UNVEILING THE MYTHWeary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan explains the allure of uncommon studies through her own experiences as a teenager who was distracted by a German poem in the back of her textbook.“It becomes a sort of secret science,” Ryan says of less common fields of study...