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...classes—which will be taught by experts including Harvard University Dining Services chefs, House building managers, and the “master technicians” from Fleet Management Services—will present the material in hands-on and seminar-style sessions, Fox said...
...first discussion with Allston residents since the University released a robust 50-year plan earlier this month for its fledgling campus across the Charles River. State Representative Kevin G. Honan, a Democrat, attributed the unusually high turnout to Allston residents’ hope that University officials would adapt the master plan more directly to neighborhood concerns. “It’s a difficult time in the process. The neighborhood wants specifics but Harvard is not in a position at this point in time to present the specifics,” he said. Allston resident Matthew Snyder expressed frustration...
...students—often the most discontented—will be alumni in less than four years and typically don’t feel the influence of Harvard’s president in the short term. An uncontroversial choice would be a prolific writer of open letters, a master fundraiser, and a pretty face who lacks an overall vision. An uncontroversial choice, in short, is precisely what the University does not need at this point. The stakes for Harvard’s future are simply too high...
...Simon aged (he is now 59), he increasingly felt a longing that comes to many creative people in later life: the urge for a deeper resonance between present and past, between work and an inner sense of self. And so he subtly but surely changed careers. America's master joke-meister moved away from the neatly rounded, readily palatable social comment that had made him the world's most popular living playwright. He stopped setting plays among hip and prosperous insiders like himself, dwelling in the Meccas of Manhattan or Beverly Hills. He began instead to evoke the bygone lives...
...attempt to do what Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams and Sam Shepard have done: create their own worlds and mesmerize viewers into them. Simon evokes a world very much like the viewers' own and entices them into confronting their own feelings. Broadway Bound is the work of a master craftsman, at once literary and heartfelt, shaped with becoming modesty. It is unmistakably urban and Jewish American in its rhythms, its idiom, its fabric of detail. In Simon's first two decades as a playwright, that ethnic quality frequently encumbered his attempts to evoke a more general view...