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...gift for making you infatuated with every character she plays,” wrote Bass Professor of English and American Literature Louis Menand, a self-proclaimed “big fan” of Streep...
...decide not to move forward with the review this term. “It would give our students a terrible message. It would tell the world that Harvard is somehow frozen in place,” he said. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, also a member of the Committee on General Education, said he would be disappointed if the leadership upheaval sidetracked the review. “I think that the people who don’t like the proposals are going to be the people who say we should wait until we have...
...attention given to television at Harvard. “It’s silly, I think. There should be at least one person whose job is [to study] TV.”“There’s been a leveling of cultural artifacts,” says Menand. “That kind of rigid stratification of cultural artifacts is no longer very persuasive to people.” Though it may seem obvious to point out, a work is only “great” or “highbrow” if people decide that...
...Boston Harbor Hotel.FROM ONE TO THE OTHERWhile the length of Summers’ tenure—the shortest since the Civil War—might be unusual, the onslaught of criticism at its close is by no means unique. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand recalls controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty years later, a lack of structure in the curriculum led to his ouster. His successor—A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—created...
...Since we don’t really know who is going to be in charge, maybe we want to wait and find out who that person is first,” Menand said...