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...succor came disguised as a first-year seminar. What could be better than, as the coursebook promised, a semester filled with characters such as Macbeth and Hannibal Lecter, or Joe Christmas and Huck Finn? Intrigued by the eclectic reading and the nature of the work, I applied to two seminars: one examining the relationship between crime and literature, the other focusing on the writings of Twain and Faulkner...
Three cheers for McLachlan and her vision of Lilith Fair! I spent many an hour sitting beside Sarah in high school English class while she dreamily sketched elaborate designs in her textbook, drawings that later evolved into album covers. I listened while our instructor scolded her for not reading Macbeth and told her that to succeed in life she needed to focus on academics, not art and music. And I cheered when she released her first album in the face of all doubt that anyone would want to hear what she had to say. She has proved that...
...rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson was billed as "The Sound and the Fury," borrowing a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth. How fitting then that Saturday's World Boxing Association heavyweight championship fight at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas turned out to be not only a tragedy but also a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing...
What he gave them specifically was the past and the present unfrightened by each other. He taught them Macbeth and Gatsby. The problem was how to persuade kids who have been told that they live on the fringes of society that the sturmings of ancient Scottish noblemen and of rich Long Islanders in pink summer shirts had something to offer their lives. The answer (Could he make them believe it?) was that they too had the hearts of kings and the longing for a green light at the end of a dock. And culture was a two-way street...
...course, in an ideal world, nobody would leave Harvard without having read Macbeth and having understood Maxwell's equations. But given that our time here is short, and sometimes our interest in other fields, limited, this ideal is impossible. However, this does not mean that there can be be no rapprochement between disciplines as disparate as Chemistry and VES (they both, after all, are housed in large and arguably very ugly cement buildings...