Word: lightness
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...which Jem overhears Mr. Blake reciting: “I wander through each chartered street...And mark in every face I meet / Marks of weakness, marks of woe.”In her prose, Chevalier lyrically captures the prevailing mood of London as a lurid “yellow light from the pub staining the fog the color of phlegm.” Yet she has this darkness intermittently cut through by the explosion of fireworks from Astley’s circus, “burning bright in the night sky.”The explosions can have a terribly...
...appearance filled all the seats in the Littauer building. Power, who is the Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, and Jacqueline Bhabha, the Executive Director of Harvard’s Committee on Human Rights Studies, asked Beah about how he thought the availability of light arms encouraged the use of child soldiers. Beah captured the attention of his audience not only with his opinions, but also with personal anecdotes from his life in Sierra Leone and after, in rehabilitation programs and the United States. When asked by Bhabha whether child soldiers should be viewed as victims...
...into a new art exhibition called “TELL ME!…a secret…” at the Carpenter Center, which opened last Thursday and will run for five weeks. The exhibit features photographs with interactive sound components, as well as a sound and light installation. Tutschku had an enormous amount of creative freedom and played the dual role of artist and curator. According to him, the process of creating the exhibition—which started last June—involved a careful balance of human, technological, and visual components. WALLS AND LAYERS...
...character is, her children—and this reviewer—can’t help but start to wish that she would just hurry up and die. Despite the film’s humorous moments, death is an unmercifully tragic subject, and attempts to make light of it often fall flat. Decide for yourself whether you would voluntarily choose to spend two hours dealing with such disconcerting feelings. —Abigail J. Crutchfield can be reached at acrutchf@fas.harvard.edu...
...Iraq war has challenged the conservative movement's custodianship of America's place in the world, as well as its claim to competence. Reagan restored a sense of America's mission as the "city on a hill" that would be a light to the world and helped bring about the defeat of what he very undiplomatically christened "the evil empire." After 9/11 Bush found his own evil empire, in fact a whole axis of evil. But he hasn't produced Reagan's results: North Korea is nuclear, Iran swaggers across the world stage, Iraq is a morass. "Conservatives are divided...