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...subtextual but unmistakable nationalism—or at least, regionalism—in the consideration of today’s arts and letters. French president Nicolas Sarkozy did not mind; crowing yesterday over Le Clézio’s success, he called the win “an honor for France, the French language, and the French-speaking world...
...languages and literature and the current Folk and Myth chair. Mitchell agreed, using a less traditional analogy.“Folklore is sometimes referred to as the bastard child that English begot on anthropology,” Mitchell said. “I wear it as a badge of honor. What they’re really trying to say is that we bridge the social sciences and humanities.”Both said that an undergraduate degree in Folk and Myth could be a launching pad into any profession, be it business, law, medicine, or film—the first...
...protectionism, withdrawal from the international political and economic community, and decreased foreign aid—must be challenged. On the edge of a global recession lies the perfect opportunity for the United States to retake the moral high ground and rejoin the world. The first step is to honor the pledges of the Millennium Development Goals...
Christina Davis, the new curator of the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room, addressed a welcoming crowd last Thursday by saying, “It is an honor to bear the title, ‘curator of poetry,’ which seems to sum up in seven syllables my relationship with poetry—‘to care for’ poetry.” There has been a year-long lull during which the books, broadsides, pamphlets, and recordings of the Woodberry collection have been without a permanent curator. With this in mind, Davis has arrived with plans...
Knights are rare enough these days, but add the labels of composer, musician, and conductor to that honor and the combination becomes practically unheard of. But Sir André Previn, who was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1996, has just these distinctions. As a guest at Harvard this past Monday, Previn shared personal insights about music as well as anecdotes and advice with the community in an intimate setting.A crowd of approximately 80 people gathered in the Kirkland Junior Common Room for a master class with Previn as part of the Learning From Performers series sponsored...