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Hats off, though to Chaim Potok. Davita's Harp, the author's sixth novel and the first narrated by a woman, successfully balances the stuff of newspapers with the stuff of diaries. Here, the key events of the 1930s--the Depression, the rise of fascism, the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War--intersect with, indeed, shape, the life of an irresistible young girl in an altogether fine, albeit sentimental, book. Potok, the author of The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, triumphs where so many before him have failed, by writing a historical novel...
...sure enough, this Sunday afternoon, these very experiments will take place. Jeffrey L. Goldberg '86, who will direct Sunday afternoon's Musical Offering explains his role: "What I'm doing may not satisfy purists who aren't used to hearing Bach on synthesizer, harp, trombone, or sax, but Bach can stand and transcend particular musical instruments." He added, "As the Musical Offering was Bach's response to the newest instrument of his day--the piano--we're applying it to the newest instruments of ours...
...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...