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...Jesus. And then, of course, there was OJ Simpson.” The trial was marked by the professors’ jokes and jabs at each other, though they did give opening statements, cross-examined “witnesses,” and delivered closing statements. Executive Director of Hillel Bernard Steinberg, who moderated yesterday’s event, characterized the case by saying, “We’re dealing here with evil.” Harris’ opening remarks charged Pharaoh with a number of crimes, including coitus interruptus. “The big problem...
...institution, the University shed its Christian roots and began admitting a wide range of religious backgrounds. Today, the University is rolling in religious diversity. Dharma, the campus Hindu organization, is booming: the Harvard Islamic Society recently organized an entire week of Islam awareness, and campus Jewish students flock to Hillel nightly. Ironically, in this flurry of religious progressivism at Harvard, it is Christianity that has been pushed to the wayside. The religion is seen as backward, nonintellectual, and extreme. No one will say that directly in public space—it is not appropriate?...
...poems, and some drafts and fragments, should be published after her death, she would have replied, I believe, with a horrified ‘No,’” Vendler wrote. Louise Glück, former poet laureate of the United States, told an audience at Harvard Hillel last night that she was encouraged as a young poet reading the unpolished works of poets like William Butler Yeats. Vendler’s assertions are not only being challenged by fellow poetry critics but by at least one member of her own English and American Literature Department...
Renowned poet Louise Glück read from her newly-reased collection “Averno: Poems” at Harvard Hillel last night, in the first of a series of talks celebrating National Poetry Month sponsored by the Harvard Book Store...
...public discussion with theatrical director and theorist Robert Brustein about another celebrated American dramatist—the late Arthur Miller—and the recently-released anthology of Miller’s play edited by Kushner.Before the event at the Brattle, Kushner also made a visit to at Harvard Hillel to discuss the influence of his Jewish roots on his writing and politics.The New York-based playwright and self-described “Jewish-American gay socialist” brought these many facets of his persona to controversial interpretations of Miller’s plays as well...