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...write fast enough in the dark, I'm using that of Wallace Fowlie, an authority on French poetry. Fowlie, who died in 1998, devoted entire semesters of teaching at Duke University to Dante and Proust, which sounds like serious stuff, but he was noted for his fine sense of humor. I have no doubt that, confronted with The Limits of Control, he would have offered a fresh translation, "As I was going down that impassive narrative, I no longer felt myself guided by a director...
...forum in which to integrate them all.This musical, however, is less of a chronicling of college students’ escapades and drama than it is an exploration of human emotions and the raw struggle that all individuals face. Though it contains scenes bordering on the cliché, the acting, humor, and storyline are not contrived, but they are both entertaining and provocative.“The Quad” neatly packages a four-year experience into a 2-hour performance. Just as the play began with the fresh optimism of that first year of college, it ends with the relief...
...school that had previously not given much focus to student life,” Kidd said. Campus Life Fellow Jason B. McCoy ’08 said that Kidd will be strongly missed in the Student Life and Activities Office, noting that she strikes the perfect balance between humor and pragmatism. “She’s very strong and doesn’t get pushed around and has the students’ best interest at heart,” said Program Coordinator for Student Events and Activities Haining Gouinlock ’07, who has worked with Kidd...
It’s no surprise that for Carpio, a self-professed “hodgepodge” of ethnicities, understanding race and culture are a crucial part of academic work as well. In 2008, Oxford University Press published her book, “Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery...
...Humor is such an under-theorized field, but its also such a significant aspect of our human experience,” says Carpio. “I hope [my book] helps people think through what America’s racial and sexual stereotypes are and how they operate in culture.” She is currently working on a book on black narrative and poetry of Latin America...