Word: honoring
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...ancient Samurai Code, which insists that competition is crass, a dishonor to the purity of the "art" that he practices. Jiu-jitsu, he insists, is not about winning and losing, it is about finding "escapes" from desperate situations, escapes that allow both participants to withdraw from combat with their honor intact. You might say that it is like a muscular and physically graceful form of chess, in which the best possible result would be a draw...
...shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu somehow remains trapped in genre conventions. It's still basically a boxing picture, not essentially different from dozens of other movies about life in and around what the old time sportswriters used to call "the squared circle." Mamet's circle...
...their absence spurred criticism from some student groups and from the conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. An editorial in the Journal had stated that ROTC had been “spurned by the school’s administration” and that their “honor and service deserve better from their academic tutors.”—Paras D. Bhayani, Clifford M. Marks, and Nathan C. Strauss contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Kevin...
...agree with your opposition to renaming Plympton Street in honor of David Halberstam ‘55 (“A Road by Any Other Name,” editorial, April 16), despite the fact that David and I were close personal friends in Dunster House and on The Crimson, and that he was a magnificent reporter whose memory deserves to be honored...
...involved in all eight Gilbert & Sullivan productions since his freshman year, acting in two and directing their most recent show, “Patience.” Being a part of the Gilbert & Sullivan shows, which sell more tickets in the fall semester than any other production, is an honor for Jewett, but he’s had great experiences at just about every Harvard theater venue. He points to set designing and light ‘opping’ at the Currier fishbowl for a play called “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” written...