Word: lightness
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...took a while for traditionalists to cotton to Dylan's lurid vandalizing of the language, his faux-folk patois: "If'n ya don't know by now... The light I never knowed... Like ya never done before..." That was the Guthrie influence, which this hip hillbilly mixed with all the other sung and spoken poetry he'd ingested to create his own voice, grammar and verdant, wildly associative language. "I needed to sing in that language," he says in the Scorsese movie, "which was a language that I hadn't heard before." Maybe you had to be young back then...
...Faculty. The Oxford-educated scientist is also renowned for his dry wit—which, even after 33 years at Harvard, Knowles still delivers in a refined British accent.Accepting Bok’s appointment in a letter to colleagues on Monday, Knowles began: “In the light of his own generous decision, it was, of course, impossible for me to look President Bok in the eye and say ‘No.’”Knowles first took the Faculty’s helm in 1991 under then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine, inheriting...
Some top deans of Harvard’s other schools, including Business School Dean Jay O. Light and Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin, have met with Bok in the past few months. But Law School Dean Elena Kagan, for example, said last week that while she had spoken with Bok, the two had not met since his appointment...
While frisbee may bring to mind light recreation on grassy meadows, the Harvard Red Line Ultimate Frisbee team says they’re all about business. The team, which was founded in 1976 and boasts 50 players, practices almost every day and travels on weekends in the spring for scrimmages and tournaments.“We are a serious and a competitive team, but at the same time we have a sort of light atmosphere,” Co-Captain Jack M. Marsh ’06 says.And their hard work seems to have paid off, for the second year...
...provide meals for us every day wonder how they’ll feed their own families come June. This is one of the many concerns of the Student Labor Action Movement’s (SLAM) latest campaign to improve the lot of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) workers in light of next month’s contract negotiation—a campaign that we wholeheartedly endorse...