Word: hollande
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...Correspondingly, “Bette and Boo” hits much closer to home for its audience, and with greater success. Although the play contains flaws of pacing and tone, it ultimately presents a powerful statement on the failings of family life—and its surprising strengths.Laurel T. Holland ’06-’07 plays Bette, the eponymous bride, with appealing directness. Bette’s series of miscarriages defines the dramatic arc of the play. She yearns for the impossible ideal of a family life full of children—and in doing so ignores...
...California, Berkeley, who has worked in France, recounts the end of a very friendly conversation with a thirtysomething Dutch couple at a restaurant in Amsterdam this summer. "I like you, and I like Americans," said the man. "But I have to tell you that my generation here in Holland is moving toward seeing the U.S. the way we saw Nazi Germany in 1944." Astrid Rosenwirth, 25, an Austrian political-science student, lived in the U.S. for four years and likes lots about the country, including a "tolerance and inclusiveness that Austria will not have achieved 20 years from...
...complete misconduct review record was sent to the Office for Research Integrity, the federal office with oversight in these matters,” Lacey said. “[They] determined independently that no further investigation was warranted.” —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...play follows the sinister, sadomasochistic, and (almost literally) suffocating interactions of two maids, who yearn for freedom from the Ancien Régime, embodied by the tyrannical “Madame” (Laurel Holland ’07). Apart from revolutionary ideas, the Papin sisters—famous 1930s French murderers—inspired Genet, just as they did in the works of Sartre and Lacan...
...weeks later there was another report of a foiled plot, this one a far more serious-sounding scheme to blow up the Holland Tunnel, which connects New Jersey to Manhattan. Sensing their credibility might be running thin, FBI officials as well as members of media started referring to these plotters as the "real deal" plotters, presumably to distinguish them from whack jobs in Miami. These guys too, it turned out, hadn't done much more than talk in an Internet chat room about blowing something up. And their plan to flood downtown New York City with sea water from...