Word: masterfulness
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...explains Pasamonik. Harvey Kurtzman used the medium to tackle racial segregation, the Cold War and McCarthyism in his satirical MAD magazine. In 1955, when popular awareness of the Holocaust was scant, Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein caused a shock by revisiting the concentration camps with the seminal graphic story Master Race. During the '60s and '70s the genre opened up to the banal and biographical, with Pekar and Crumb's darkly humorous American Splendor and Eisner's landmark graphic novel, A Contract with...
John Le Carre's novels, in�which secret agents confound one another with twisted espionage games, may have taken inspiration from legendary, real-life Soviet master-spy Alexander Feklisov, the cold-war operative who ran some of the KGB's deadliest spies in the West. Feklisov's recruits included Julius Rosenberg, widely believed to have provided information on the Manhattan Project, and German scientist Klaus Fuchs, who had worked at the Los Alamos lab. Feklisov was pivotal in his country's acquisition of the nuclear bomb, first exploded in 1949, some five years before U.S. agents expected...
While a degree of secrecy is necessary for certain upper-level appointments, allowing more community members a meaningful say would greatly enhance discussion on the issues when selecting a new House master, dean, University librarian, or University president. Searches should be made either formally through a more public process, or participants in a community looking for a new leader should be more informally involved. This could entail students interviewing candidates for the dean of the College position or actually creating a formal committee to make a recommendation...
...Bharatanatyam dancer does not simply learn a few steps in order to perform an Indian dance drama. She must study for years to master “nritta” (pure dance) and “abhinaya” (pure emotion). “Kalpanam: Classical Imaginations” hopes to showcase the level of technique required for Indian classical dance, while expressing a sense of responsibility for preserving tradition. Tomorrow, the Harvard South Asian Association will bring Bharatanatyam, as well as other South Asian dance styles, to Lowell Lecture Hall in its third annual production...
Midway through its first term, the revamped advising system for sophomores is getting high marks from House masters, tutors, and some students. Now that undergraduates don’t have to settle on a concentration until their third semester, the program targets sophomores just getting acquainted with the rhythms of upperclass life. Resident tutors are now expected to help sophomores pick an academic field to make the focus of their years at Harvard. “I’ve seen a lot of programs and initiatives and things come and go during my time at Harvard, and this...