Word: marias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Professor of German Maria M. Tatar, who teaches the course Literature and Arts A-18, "Fairy Tales, Children's Literature and the Culture of Childhood," dips into a bag of tricks during her lectures to keep students interested. Her captivating curriculum calls for bits of Snow White and a comprehensive deconstruction of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to engage students with toddler-sized attention spans. Tatar is a firm believer in her teaching methods. "You can see the exhilaration in the eyes of the students as they come to lecture," she boasts...
...represents a realignment of America's cultural aesthetics. Rap songs deliver the message, again and again, to keep it real. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote that "a work of art is good if it has sprung from necessity." Rap is the music of necessity, of finding poetry in the colloquial, beauty in anger, and lyricism even in violence. Hip-hop, much as the blues and jazz did in past eras, has compelled young people of all races to search for excitement, artistic fulfillment and even a sense of identity by exploring the black underclass. "And I know because...
Berkowitz's ad hoc committee included LeonKass, an ethics and biology expert from theUniversity of Chicago; University of Pennsylvaniapolitical scientist Ellen Kennedy; and IsaacKramnick from Cornell University's politicalscience department. The Harvard members of thecommittee were Starch Professor of PsychologyJerome Kagan and Professor of German Maria M.Tatar...
Minyard, who also choreographed for the ballet company, exhibited her flexibility as a choreographer with a beautiful rendition of the Brazilian piece "Magalenha" that was as different from "In the Jazz Club" as it was exciting, and the high-energy choreography of Fabiana Kepler '00 for Ricky Martin's "Maria" drew her dancers' into the highest enthusiasm...
...three panelists--Mara G. Aspinall, president of the pharmaceutical division of the Genzyme Corporation, Maria Zapf, who works at Boston Life Sciences Incorporated, and Katya H. Mariz, the Product Strategy manager at Safe Science--each outlined different paths to their business careers. All three now work for companies that produce products through advanced scientific research...