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...architects of their own good fortunes,” and that successful men were “indebted to themselves for themselves.” Today, the speech is often read as a proclamation of “the American Dream,” the idea that men can go from nothing to something—as Douglass himself did—if only they would work hard enough. This whole Rags-to-Riches trope, says Malcolm Gladwell, author of the bestsellers “Blink” and “The Tipping Point,” is actually...
...Isabelle Huppert. Despite the prestige that Huppert’s name lends to the project, Denis refuses to see her career as a progression. “I never imagined there would be a progression. I imagined there would be a regression. Progression—this is not an idea that is active in me,” she said. But in her characteristic reconstructive fashion, Denis modifies her statement. “Maybe—if progression meant an exploration underground so you don’t know where you are, and it becomes too narrow, so you step...
...Harvard Voice, another student-run campus publication, has incorporated new media into its practices as well. “The idea behind [The Voice] is that it’s a multimedia publication in the true sense of the world multimedia,” says Derek M. Flanzraich ’10, who until recently held the title of Director of Multimedia at The Voice. Through reader comments on The Voice’s website and related blogs, the publication seeks to create a consistent dialogue between its print and digital forms, Flanzraich says. The Voice also recently began...
...endeavor as it is emotionally unsatisfying: “The evening had been a real success, they’d all seen me with Kaminski, everything had gone well. Yet suddenly I felt sad.”And yet, while the novel engages with a whole range of important ideas, the problem of the story itself is that Kaminski’s nihilism is too overbearing. Kaminski rants, “you think you have a life. And suddenly, everything’s gone. Art means nothing. Everything’s an illusion.” And his nihilism outweighs...
...memories,” Brown said. Thankfully, she did share some of those memories. While she was choreographing “Set & Reset”—an iconic, post-modern piece with music composed by Laurie Anderson—Rauschenberg called her up with an idea. She had been having what she described as writer’s block and was struggling with her solo in the center of the stage. As she told the story, she again left her chair and re-enacted her pacing. “I never told anyone, but then Bob calls...