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...speechwriters “played them up for all they were worth,” scoring a “puppy bounce” in the polls), incorporated audience-appropriate cultural references (likening her catalog of rhetorical devices to a word list from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”), and took logistical details in stride (making a swift transition from highlighting video clips to asking for audience questions during a technical glitch). The tutorial “really went into the nitty-gritty, beyond the granular” of speechwriting, said David J. Baron...
...trio, the Klaxons sure can make a ton of noise. This British band’s name comes from the Greek word “klaxon,” which basically means “to shriek.” And sometimes they do just that on their full-length debut “Myths of the Near Future.” The Klaxons are all about creating a fresh sound. While essentially a rock band, elements of both dance and pop music inflect their work. Songs such as “Atlantis to Interzone?...
However, after suffering from politics for nearly three thousand years since the first recorded outbreak in Greek city-states, humanity has hope for a cure, and some of the most interesting work is being done here at Harvard. The 40-year old Institute of Politics is the experimental hope for reducing the number of politicians in the world. The IOP, as described by Jason Zenerle of the New Republic, serves as “a sort of halfway house for recently defeated politicians trying to reenter decent society.” This strategy of using rehabilitation to solve the political...
...book's name and cover caught my eye simultaneously. V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival was illustrated with a similarly titled painting by Giorgio de Chirico, the Greek-Italian pre-Surrealist. I pored over the book, which describes the Trinidadian Nobel laureate's own coming to terms with living in southern England, a few miles from where I had grown up. Enthused and enthralled, I decided I wanted the painting...
...report’s authors, in seeking to improve Harvard’s classrooms, had paid little attention to student behavior.Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman called for “mutual commitment on the part of teachers and learners.”“As the ancient Greeks knew, if all the oarsmen are put on one end of the trireme, it will sink or at least sail around in circles,” the classicist said. “Some students don’t come to class, or they come late, or they surf...