Word: lifeness
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...thought what we were missing [at Harvard] was preparing for life as an actor and figuring out how you go about the business of acting and graduate school,” says Beth G. Shields ’10, president of the HRDC. “This program is a taste of what you would get in graduate school, so you know if it’s right...
...fag’ at the homecoming dance on high school just ‘friended’ me on Facebook,” Barrios said. “I want to accept—I want him to see how I’m living my life...
Burt sees similar value in the works studied in the course. “The study of science fiction helps us think about social and political life outside literature,” he says, “because in science fiction the effect of material conditions on individual lives becomes unignorable.” According to Burt, this perspective is in contradistinction to other forms of prose that students often encounter...
...realist fiction,” he says, “peoples’ inward states appear to be determined mostly by who they fall in love with or how their families work. But when you read science fiction attentively you see how much of an individual’s life is guided not by psychology, and not by the unconscious so much as by technological and material circumstances—the difficulty of obtaining information, the availability of transport fuel, the speed of communications...
...years. A stop-motion animated riff on Roald Dahl’s classic book, the film reunites Anderson with frequent screenwriting collaborator Noah Baumbach (director of “The Squid and the Whale”), casting George Clooney as the title character in a war for land and life against a trio of demonic factory-farmers. Clooney is the latest in a line of charismatic paterfamilias—common in the director’s films—whose hubris outstrips any thought of the well-being of those around him. Fox steals, sabotages, and generally goads the farmers...