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...There aren’t other departments across the country, just those teaching in linguistics, history or comp lit departments. If the Celtic person leaves, there is no guarantee that [the department] will re-hire another Celticist,” he says...
Then again, even if the standards were raised, the idea that students can place out at all based on high school experience is deeply flawed. Indeed, Harvard doesn’t let students off Lit. and Arts A because they read a lot of Shakespeare in high school. (Trust me: I’ve tried and failed on that score too.) The liberal arts philosophy which I discussed earlier applies to the classes which students should be exposed to at Harvard, not before they reach Cambridge. And the idea that taking a foreign cultures course is an acceptable alternative...
...eyes lit up. “That’s it,” he said. “I’m passionately confused...
...hallway in the sky-lit Shapiro rotunda, a well-heeled, predominantly 30-40 year-old crowd mingled over live music while munching on tapas, sipping bellini martinis (the month’s featured cocktail) and admiring the beautiful early twentieth century murals by John Singer Sargent. To the right of the upper rotunda in the grand colonnade, gossiping guests clung to an ornate railing, overlooking one of the lower galleries. Others reclined in luxurious brown leather couches and chairs, chatting amidst paintings by turn-of-the-century American painters. The scene was quintessential Gatsby—cultured, decadent and highly...
...Gorky delivered a speech declaring "Socialist Realism" to be the only morally acceptable art form, Stalin imposed it as aesthetic law. No matter that it wasn't realism at all - but instead a dreamy digestible theater of the proletarian paradise to come. For the next 30 years, oversized, brightly lit scenes of handsome and happy workers and their Kremlin leaders toiling for the communist cause went up on every billboard, cinema screen and gallery wall until, as Groys puts it, "they completely altered and reorganized the visual space of an entire society." But, as the exhibition attests, artistic talent could...