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...Journey's End, R.C. Sherriff's 1928 play about World War I now being revived on Broadway, comes with the stage entirely emptied of people. We're in a dugout in the British trenches in France, and two officers have just left to lead a dangerous raid into the German front lines. They must make a dash of 70 yards, grab a prisoner and return. All we hear is the offstage sound of explosions, machine-gun fire, the shouts of men. A puff of smoke wafts in from outside. Then it's over...
...translation. This is something that the three members of the committee that will draft the Faculty legislation that would implement the new general education curriculum should keep at the front of their minds. The committee may think—in the words of committee member and Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan—that it is engaging only in “translation.” It nevertheless holds broad power to affect the educations of a generation of Harvard students by determining the minutiae of implementation that students will have to deal with constantly...
...Biggest press room applause so far follows the entry of Lives of Others director Florian Henchel von Donnersmarck. Those German journalists sure are nationalistic! I repress the urge to stand and declare, "I am a jelly donut." Someone asks a question comparing Dick Cheney to the KGB. The director wisely points out that said journalist would be killed for asking that question were the comparison really...
...Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who set the stage for a no-confidence vote against Summers last year, said she turns away when Bradley’s attention wanders from Harvard to other issues...
...Polemics are the last thing Journey's End is interested in. The officers holed up in this dimly lit den on the eve of a major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...