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...seating capacity at O’Donnell Field is listed as 1,600 in Harvard’s sports media materials, but that figure should be taken with a grain of salt. There are seats behind each team’s benches that are perfectly usable, but the biggest stands—those behind home plate—are obstructed by protective green mesh on the fence. There’s no point in sitting there unless you’re at the very top of the bleachers or possess x-ray vision...
Though Adams adopted minimalism against the popular academic grain, it does not fully define his work, according to Yannatos...
Let’s start by beaming C-SPAN far and wide so that all the doubters can see the excruciatingly dull debates about education funding or agricultural subsidies. Let them watch as a no-name representative inarticulately stumbles through a speech about price supports for grain. Let’s show the pandemonium on the House floor as a congressperson tries to speak above the din of scurrying pages and strategizing staffers...
...owners to establish credit, take out loans, and make long-term plans and visions for the future. Instead of hiding an illicit underground bakery in a small, unmarked shack, its rightful owners could put a sign outside, advertise, expand, and create lasting partnerships with delivery services, sandwich shops and grain producers...
...more fundamental disagreement about the role and responsibility of art—its political capital apart from its aesthetic value. Many of the students who supported the right of both poets to speak cited artistic license and linguistic elasticity as reasons for reading their poems with a grain of salt. From the mouth of a politician (witness Trent Lott’s quick demise), a poem like “Somebody blew up America” would be defamation; in the voice of a poet, it remains shielded by the nomenclature of Art. As much as our experiences might teach...