Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from their elementary school who'd gone to Harvard, the one class genius whom they'd known of, but not known. Some wanted to know if Harvard is "a lot of work" and whether it's hard. During the night, two guys asked me to confirm stories they'd heard about life within our mysterious Ivory Tower. Another guy was thrilled to meet me because he'd never before met a Harvard student; he'd known theoretically that we existed, but he'd never seen living proof...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III was interviewed by Thernstrom on details of the tragedy as she conducted her research but said he had not heard her criticisms of the University at the time...
When I first heard the news, I was hard-pressed, to believe it, but I assumed I'd handle it with what I then thought was strength and maturity. Of course there were tears, but I attempted to force myself away from sadness...
...SEEN & HEARD...
...Zedong's Cultural Revolution planting rice and listening not to symphonies and concertos but to the music of village rituals. "It's more like a language than music," he recalls. "Soundwise, it's like the texture of wind." At 19, while playing violin in a Beijing opera company, he heard his first piece of Western classical music, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which opened up a whole new world of sonic possibilities. He went to New York City to study composition in 1986, and has lived there ever since. "New York is the best place for me," he explains...