Word: minding
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...choose the paths they do? Though the collection is necessarily a bit incoherent, Thurman’s consistently lively narrative voice compensates for any discontinuity. In each successive essay, Thurman takes on a new topic with equal ferocity, laying out for her reader the inner workings of the minds of artists, eccentrics, and politicians alike.Thurman opens her collection with “The Wolf at the Door,” a horrifying essay with a strangely hypnotic appeal. “The Wolf at the Door” profiles Anne Beecroft, a performance artist whose work centers on bulimia. Thurman...
...depth, Harvard is still aiming high. Princeton, ranked fourth in the country, is the heavy favorite for this weekend’s race. The rest of the league, however, is fairly evenly matched, and in the championship meet environment, anything could happen.But Cummins has a concrete goal in mind for her team. “We’re hoping to come back and beat Yale again this weekend,” she said. “First and foremost, we want to improve on our recent performances at Heps,” Saretsky added. With the momentum generated...
...These are the questions that every sports fan will have to answer as we are each forced to evaluate our individual philosophies about sports. If sports are entertainment to you, PEDs are a welcome improvement—heck I wouldn’t mind seeing 600 foot home runs more often, especially given the disputed nature of alleged negative effects of some PED’s. But if sports are something sacred to you, then this potentially widespread impurity must be disconcerting...
...Scissors” was composed by Clark’s husband Stefan Hakenberg, who also received his Ph.D. from Harvard. Each song had six or seven different movements, separated by what looked like very complicated tuning processes. The zithers can chime and shimmer at some points and call to mind a pedal steel or blues guitar at others. The instruments are mainly plucked, though they were also hit with drumsticks and scraped to create a swishing sound.After the show, audience members were invited down to the stage to try their hand at playing a zither.The newest members of the ensemble...
...personality woke to a reverse-911 call early on the morning of Oct. 22, embers were already raining over his house. Hamilton barely had time to save his 93-year-old mother and a suitcase full of insurance papers before fleeing. "When I pulled out of my driveway, my mind-set was, I was saying good-bye to all my memories," he says. "I thought the whole neighborhood was going to be leveled." When he returned the next morning, fewer than half the homes in his area had survived - including his own. But the sheer scale of the destruction...