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...what music is for. To Pythagoras, it was the sound of mathematical, cosmic harmony reverberating in the human soul; to Darwin, a function of sexual selection; to psychologist Steven Pinker, it is a kind of "auditory cheesecake ... crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of at least six of our mental faculties." Like life itself, music is universally experienced yet ultimately eludes explanation...
...underground pledging to become a member of a Black Greek Letter organization. For far too long, men and women across the country, and yes, even at Harvard, have been participants in illegal or “underground” pledging activities that have subjected them to physical, emotional, and mental abuse, all in the name of black solidarity. The silence of these victims is simultaneously coerced and demanded by current and former allegiances, fear of punishment, embarrassment, and even self-justification for what they went through—yet empowerment of the African-American community demands that someone speak...
...tries to anticipate the movement of each player charging at his net. “We do a lot of research on the other team and on what they do for their power plays,” Richter said, “so I try to keep a mental note of what guys are on the ice because certain guys have a tendency to do different things.” Despite a calculated approach, Richter attributes a bit of chance to his success in Saturday’s game, given that the Saints outshot Harvard...
...We’ve spent a lot of time talking about mental intensity and the ability to be resilient during adverse times,” Stone says. “One of the things that bothered me [about last year]—and we talked about it a lot during the offseason—was that we were in a position to win a lot of games and in the end we didn’t win them…I don’t believe it was a case of talent. I believe it was a case...
...Billy Aronson’s play, produced by Kelley D. McKinney ’09 and Davone J. Tines ’09, is a romantic comedy about a day in the life of four mental patients, their nurse, and one patient’s husband. Watching it, one can almost see the playwright standing in the wings, waiting for the audience to realize the story’s central message: the characters’ respective neuroses may make their romantic entanglements more absurd, but their thought processes are exactly like those of any “normal?...