Word: modernizing
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What: The Harvard-Radcliffe Modern Dance Company’s spring performance, with original student and professional choreography. The dance pieces “range from the athletic, to the balletic, to the most abstract, eclectic dance theater that you can find.” Tickets available from the box office: $8 regular, $5 student and seniors...
...said that the modern emergence of young adulthood, or “adultolescence,” has created a culture in which men assert their masculinity in ways that deepen gender inequality...
That Goldstein is much more at home in the academic realm than in the religious gradually becomes clear. For all her novel’s ambition to portray and explain the modern religious experience, it is unable to shake sufficiently free of its author’s initial presumptions. Like many new atheist tracts, “36 Arguments for the Existence of God” paints the religion-and-reason question in Manichean terms. This sort of framing can highlight sharp distinctions in philosophies, but doesn’t begin to approach the varieties of religious experience?...
...they want you, they’ll want what you’ve got,” stealth marketer KC (Lauren Hutton) counsels her employee (David Duchovny) in “The Joneses.” In this commentary on modern American consumerism, director Derrick Borte explores the consequences of taking this advice to the limit. The film, graced with an original premise, a talented and well-cast group of actors, and a clever, well-paced script manages to be ironically funny, genuinely touching, and disturbing all at once. Borte critiques American society, but avoids heavy cynicism by allowing characters...
...father (Benjamin T. Morris ’09) follows suit with his hilarious introductory song, “I am the very model of a modern Major-General.” He delivers his performance with confident, prim inflection at a break-neck pace, capturing the Major-General’s character from the first sure-handed note. His assurance that he can provide “many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse” provides laughs...