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Abhinand Lath recalls being particularly moved by a poem by an 11th century Japanese woman who described strolling through a young bamboo forest so delicate that her movements caused the stalks and their shadows to change colors. Bamboo happened to be the topic of Lath's master's thesis in architecture at the University of Michigan. Yet the poem, and the idea of colors subtly changing through variances in movement and light, stuck with...
Most audiences like their thrills fast and simple; hence the horror film. But there are subtler ways to get the creeps; hence the suspense film. In 53 features over 51 years, Alfred Hitchcock imprinted himself so indelibly on that genre that he was known as the Master of Suspense, influencing scare artists on three continents. In the films below, the accents are unique but the frissons are similar. Fear, after all, is a universal language...
...University hired Christopher Gordon, who oversaw the expansion of Boston’s Logan Airport, to serve as Harvard’s chief operating officer for Allston development. And Spiegelman reiterated yesterday that based on the feedback generated by the new display room, Harvard plans to file an institutional master plan for the new campus this spring. The “Harvard in Allston” room, which takes up the storefront once occupied by the gift store Selletto, will be open to the public in mid-November on Mondays and Fridays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesdays...
...when his state's high court cleared the way for gay marriage, Gov. Mitt Romney invoked a law from 1913 prohibiting Massachusetts marriage licenses from being given to nonresident couples whose union would be "void" in their home state. Anti-integrationists were plain wrong then; black people had no master plan to destroy the institution of the white family. Who's to say the forces against gay marriage won't be proven Chicken Littles as well...
...Quad Library will be open on Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will increase its coursepack reserves, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collection Management Marilyn Wood wrote in an e-mail. HCL also plans to establish a committee, which will include students and a House master, to examine library services, Currier House Master Joseph L. Badaracco wrote in an e-mail. Badaracco will sit on the advisory committee. The Quad Library’s extended service marks a victory for the Undergraduate Council (UC), which has prioritized the Quad Library since HCL cut back its hours last...