Word: harp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrative deftly captures Davita's particular sense of placelessness and evokes a child's view of events. But in explaining the parents' political fervor and in analyzing their times, Davita's Harp too often limits itself to predictable externalities. Potok relies heavily on the imagination of other artists: the explanation for Davita's father's alienation from his timber- tycoon forebears, for example, is that he witnessed a real-life scene of antiunion violence that is vividly evoked in John Dos Passos' 1919, and Davita comes to understand him by reading the book. He also introduces a surrogate uncle...
...serve a public need defined other than by the number of people who want to watch a given program, then by all means it should do so. That's how we end up with driver education programs, and documentaries on harp seals, and even "Monty Python's Flying Circus," none a ratings success, but each a legitimate use of the public airwaves. Public TV instructs, enlightens, and entertains in ways commercial networks just can't afford...
...system of modified random assignment. A modified random plan would allow freshmen to still pick their rooming and blocking groups in March These groups then would be randomly assigned to the different houses. But most Harvard students blindly come to the defense of the current system. Students harp on "the right to choose" and the importance of determining their own face. Many assume that the more control they have over the assignment process, the happier they will be. The Administration perceives these sentiments and hesitates to deny students this privilege to choose their place of residence. Although these people realize...
...Harvard, Benet practices her rare ability with the Harvard/Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), the Bach Society Orchestra and the Ensemble Society. She takes three music classes as electives but must go to New York for lessons because Harvard lacks a harp teacher. She recently acquired an instructor from the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Benet hopes to attend the Paris Conservatory next year, which, she says, is the most prestigious school for studying the harp. She plans to compete in June for a $2000 Close Award for full-time harp study, and looks toward her first international competition in Geneva next year...