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...Warm Blob Our Appreciation of film director Robert Wise [MILESTONES, Sept. 26] referred in a rather disparaging manner to The Sound of Music, for which Wise won an Oscar for best direction. TIME's somewhat negative cinematic view was first voiced 40 years ago when the movie version of the 1959 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical comedy opened. Here is an excerpt from that critique [March...
...Uncounted Costs of a Living Wage”), Vivek G. Ramaswamy argues that securing higher wages for Harvard workers would “inextricably yet fatefully marry” human worth to monetary worth, and that this would somehow result in Harvard students acting in a condescending manner toward Harvard workers. If Ramaswamy would start acting in a condescending manner to Harvard workers simply because Harvard chose to pay them enough money to live above the poverty line, that tells us something about Ramaswamy’s moral condition, not about the relative merits of the living-wage campaign. Regardless...
...charm, and, though it seems clichéd to say it, Hoffman deserves that Oscar nomination.The humor of Capote, exemplified in his real life by his proclivity to tell amusing anecdotes on the talk show circuit, is convincingly portrayed. Capote’s big-city style, complete with overbearing manner and designer clothing is a stark contrast to the people and the Kansas landscape, full of long, barren shots, leafless trees, and overcast skies. He is the center of attention, not the murders, but the audience doesn’t mind as Capote’s quips break the tension.Despite...
...situations to which the reader can relate. We may not have been there on her trip with Dunne to Hawaii, but everyone has memories of family vacations. Everyone has stories of childhood emergency room visits. Everyone has experienced a love and a loss; Didion articulates her own in a manner that is at once strange and familiar, beautiful, and devastating.—Staff Writer Marin J.D. Orlosky can be reached at orlosky@fas.harvard.edu...
...Minesweeper on their laptops, or simply daydreaming about how sleeping would be a more productive use of their time.I don’t mean to incriminate all TFs by any means—certainly, there do exist TFs who understand the material, present it in an interesting and engaging manner, and actively lead their sections while inspiring discussion. So, to those TFs, I apologize for the broad strokes I have painted in this diatribe. Seriously, you guys are awesome. You know your stuff. And I’ll see you in section later today (just kidding—I would...