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With a kind smile and bright demeanor, Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 doesn’t seem a likely match for the cryptic, tenebrous Paul Celan, a mid 20th-century German-Jewish poet who famously wrote works about the Holocaust. Nonetheless, her thesis explored what she terms “ineffability as a philosophical problem” in Celan’s work, or “how to talk about what you can’t talk about.”As a co-Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Gamut, a poetry editor on Persephone...
...Equality in the Context of a Transforming Supreme Court,” is the last she is teaching here as her stint at Harvard ends. When the group reached the river, Verdi’s Requiem sounded from a portable stereo. Benshoof read several quotations, including one from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel that said, “The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” After the reading, the group launched the coffin into the Charles River and then tried to burn pages from the majority opinion. After one student successfully...
...joined in its defense. The coup collapsed, and within a year the Soviet Union was no more. That freed more than a dozen countries to chart their own future, offered the hope of democracy to the 150 million people of Russia, and eliminated the Cold War threat of nuclear holocaust. As Yeltsin put it in his 1994 book Struggle for Russia, "I believe that history will record the twentieth century essentially ended Aug. 19 through...
Hindsight blows just as strong through events like this. It's the nature of tragedy that it comes packaged in irony, sharp little stabs of coincidence that make it hurt even more: there was the Holocaust survivor who died trying to save his students from a mass murder committed on Holocaust Remembrance Day. There was the international-studies student who had seen the carnage at the Pentagon on 9/11 and wanted to be a peacemaker; he died in French class. There was the killer who signed into English class with a question mark, known by the few who knew...
Elsewhere students mistook the sounds for construction work going on nearby. Liviu Librescu, 77, the Holocaust survivor, was teaching solid mechanics on the same hall when the class heard the shots. He braced his body in front of the door, yelling to his students to head for the window. They pushed out the screens, jumped or dropped into bushes below to escape. "I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Alec Calhoun, who landed in a bush and ran. The two students behind him were shot, he said...