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...influential scientist and expert wordsmith, as storyteller, opinionist, and master of the anecdote, Stephen Jay Gould has contributed an immense amount to the fields of paleontology, biology, geology, and anthropology—not to mention many others that he addresses with equal facility. “One of my theories is that everybody is very good at some thing,” he says. “Once in a while you’ll luck out and what you happen to be at is also professionally very useful, and I turned out to be in that category...
Last year Germer took a religion elective with Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Master of Lowell House, where Germer lives. Though she says her initial motivation was to get to know her House Master and to enroll in a “cushy elective,” she found that she was doing her religion homework before anything else. She eventually added religion as a joint concentration with government, her chosen field, but says the readings in the religion tutorial, which focused on “religion as a psychological crutch,” as she puts...
...creativity. It’s just too easy: juxtaposition and titillation equal humor. Yet when the subject is tackled not as a plot twist, but as a main topic, for a new play with no less an author than Edward Albee, attention must be paid. Could Albee, the master of exploring the absurd to gain insight into the mundane, have found a path to stinging profundity through bestiality? Had he combined the best of both worlds—serious commentary with some animal sex jokes thrown in along the way? The disappointing answer is no. Though its aspirations...
...most Winthrop denizens, this table tent announcement was nothing more than a source of meal-time banter and speculation on the ruggedness of Winthrop men. However, Carlos J. Rojas ’04 thought that spring break hauling firewood and writing poetry on Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson’s farm was the perfect respite...
...wonderful opportunity for people to get to know each other.” While the Hansons have hosted both men and women in the past, Hanson decided to “keep it simple” this time and only invite males since his wife, Co-Master Cynthia Rosenberger, had to teach all week and he would be the only supervisor...