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...understand that the vendors feel slighted, but that is not Harvard's fault. The very fact that they were given three-month leases should have given them a hint that perhaps the Shops were not forever...
Harvard's black scholars, whom Henry Louis Gates Jr. Once referred to as a "dream team," are devoted to more than pursuing research and engaging in public debates. Some of the bigger names might not be quite as accessible as most other professors (hint: make an appointment, don't just show up to their office hours). However, all Harvard students have the opportunity to benefit from the Afro-American "dream team" that the university has assembled. Not only are their classes fascinating, but they are often available to speak at Harvard functions or comment on campus issues...
...same details can take on additional layers of ambiguity. Look at the wedge of sunlight that hems in the girl in his 1949 picture Graduation. Because of the way it seems to guide her into a more confined future, the light feels ominous. Because the girl is black, the hint of dwindling expectations has an additional gravity for her situation and for DeCarava's account...
...little chat, we need to understand how she knew he would be in this particular and peculiar place--a cemetery, not some social club in Little Italy--at just this moment. Or when the Teacher needs to car bomb the mobster's limousine, we need to have some hint of how he gained access to it when the last we knew they were miles apart. For that matter, it would be nice if the director, Brian Gibson, who has also done better things (What's Love Got to Do with It), kept his geography straight. Sometimes the courthouse to which...
Martin lasted so long by embracing show-biz contradictions, then shrugging them off. For a start, he was a traditional crooner who learned intonation from Crosby and salesmanship from Jolson. Yet there was a hint in his gestures (eyes closed in ecstasy, arms stretched out imploringly) that he was parodying the very idea of crooner; he was a mellow modernist. You could also peg Dino as an anachronism, a Joe E. Lewis saloon-lush type, the party animal in a tux. Or maybe he was the first slacker, elevating sloth to a Zen art. The stupefaction he radiated...