Word: labyrinthes
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Nowadays, resident tutors exist as but another confusing level in Harvard's academic advising labyrinth. Their formal role in the Houses largely depends on the purview of their House master. And while a handful of tutors do take very active roles in running House programs or advising students, the majority have few actual responsibilities. They are not supposed to be glorified proctors, and they behave as much. They may ask us to keep it down at night, but don't seem to care too much about the studies--or other things--going on in our rooms...
According to Greek mythology, Daedalus was an Athenian inventor who built the Labyrinth of Minos--and then craftily escaped the island by fastening wings to his back. Although it makes for a great story and an even better name, the connection between the Greek myth and the newest bar-restaurant in the Square simply does not hold. Who would want to fly away from the luxury of Cambridge's newest venture into fine decor, dining and imbibing...
...labyrinth is a good way to relax," Rosenthal concludes...
...cards go to be forgotten, where 10,000-lire bills from a three-year-old Italian vacation retire, where 1997 restaurant receipts and 1994 family snapshots dwell. Where it takes 10 minutes not to find what you're looking for amid the detritus stuffed over the years into that labyrinth of folds and pockets. And where, occasionally, you come across a long-lost $50 bill. But you can bet some high-tech smarty-pants is close to hatching the archefficient Hip Pilot, the virtual wallet, the transformation of all that comforting confusion into so many tiny green symbols...
...strength as a composer. He can be emotional (as on Airport Sadness), but he is never weepy. He can be jaunty (West Hartford), but he never descends into trifling silliness. And while his work tends to be courageously complex (the dizzyingly cerebral Amsterdam), he never gets lost in the labyrinth of his intellect. "Memory can make a location more 'real' than it ever was in reality," he notes. This album takes us to places we could never visit, except while riding on the shoulders of Mehldau's gigantic talent...