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...never took a case he felt was morally wrong, and you don’t have to either. Quit before sacrificing your principles.If you reread Gilbert’s book, you’ll remember why it intrigued you so much when you read it four years ago. Essentially, Gilbert makes a strong case that we humans are terrible at predicting what will make us happy in the future, but we love doing it, and we refuse to let anyone else do it for us. (In fact, future Nick—if you haven’t pretentiously changed your...
...Overseers, following up on reports made in the wake of Harvard’s crisis of governance in the late 1960s, established the so-called Gilbert Committee, which considered three subjects: whether changes should be made to the Overseers’ visitation process, whether the Board’s selection process was appropriate, and whether the Overseers should continue to exist...
...Gilbert Committee concluded in 1978 that Harvard’s system of governance should remain in place. First, the authors contended, the shortcomings in the structure “are more nearly weaknesses of execution than of basic assignment of functions.” And second, because Harvard’s governance structure is established in what is now the Massachusetts Constitution, asking the state legislature to implement the changes could result in “unpredictable consequences...
...parade, and two others, "Who Cares?" and "Love Is Sweeping the Country," still put a 2/4 spring in the step of many a geriatric. But the score was no succession of stand-alone ballads and dance tunes. Ira referred to the show as an operetta and, in the Gilbert and Sullivan mode, each song fits into the plot, advances the improbable story and fleshes out the characters, all the while parading its jazzy insouciance. Sometimes Ira can be just on the lyric side of lewd. In "Never Was a Girl So Fair," a hymn to Miss Devereaux's allure...
...Harvard, the multi-talented Goldman has worked behind the scenes on countless shows, contributing her expertise as a set designer, stage manager, and even puppet designer. She served as president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players last year, and has also played the cello for the Mozart Society Orchestra for four years...