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...visit Mt. Auburn with a friend. Less scary, but still interesting, is the memorial for Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first official African-American regiments to fight in the Civil War (as depicted in the film “Glory??). Shaw is actually buried in a mass grave near where he was killed at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, but his engraved stone depicts a Classical sparring-match of sorts. Other, simpler tombstones mark the graves of Dorothea Dix, social activist for the mentally ill, and Bernard Malamud, author...
Tuesday, Oct. 11—Tuesday, Nov. 29. In The Trenches: Filming World War I. Filmic representations of World War I ranging from buddy stories to jingoistic and pacificist revisionism. The series includes Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory?? and Howard Hughes’ “Hell’s Angels.” Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
...particular, Doherty pointed to the abuse of children by priests. “Now we’re off the pedestal forever,” he said wearing a “Return to Glory?? Notre Dame t-shirt. “The church is being purged, which is good because we were too arrogant, too above the people...
Zwick believes that choosing to portray the past through the eyes of an outsider, as is done in both The Last Samurai and Glory??in which the white protagonists become the minority—serves as a useful method of underscoring the contradictions of the time...
...into a business venture, officially contracting companies like Collegiate Memorials to fashion entire lines of insignia products—including caskets, monuments, vaults and urns. For those seeking even more distinction, the urns come in three styles: “The Legacy,” “The Glory?? and “The Victory.” The business is a lucrative one—even though basic royalty rates are only 5 to 10 percent, a casket alone can run up to $25,000. “There clearly is some money to be made...