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CURTIS Well, we're all limited in what we can do. You don't ask Bono to write an opera on the subject of something political, and as I was trying to address a passion of mine, it seemed apt that I should do it in the kind of way that I'd written films before. If I'd tried to write a serious political drama, I wouldn't have known where to begin. So I tried to write about politics from the point of view of a normal person...
From the age of 4 1/2 to 14, I rarely spoke. That's because I am a stutterer--even now, after a long career as an actor. I understand there are some wonderful techniques used today to solve a problem like mine, but in my day I just had Professor Crouch. Donald Crouch was a professor who had known Robert Frost and had taught at some of the same Midwestern universities. He retired to this small community in Brethren, Mich., where my high school was--and he couldn't stand it. So he dropped his plow--he was a farmer...
This university is more mine than Larry Summers’,” says J. Lorand Matory ’82, professor of anthropology and of African and African American studies. “I will not let Larry Summers determine that this will become a place where social Darwinism is the leading ideology or leading practice...
...child of mine is going to be taking some kind of music,” Wiprud says with a laugh. “You have a choice what kind of music, but knowing as much as I do about music education and children’s development, I feel like I would be an abusive father to not let them do music.” Wiprud’s two children—Allegra, 13 and Marlon, 10—both study the guitar. Allegra also sings and recently retired from the New York City Opera, where she sang...
Friends of mine lambast our peers for endless petty complaining and cynicism. But the last six months of a faculty up in arms should instead demonstrate that if we pick our battles, Harvard-style skepticism might pay off when it matters. When complaint is backed up by sound reasoning and productive action, from those who care and know the most, it is hardly unwarranted...