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...Dramatic Arts 34, ‘Paul Taylor Dance Technique and Repertory’ this semester,’” she writes in an email to The Crimson. “I’m also planning on moving to New York next year to continue studying modern dance and auditioning for modern dance companies.”With a change in administration, there are new hopes on the horizon for the arts-conscious at Harvard. In November 2007, President Drew G. Faust announced the assembly of a task force on the arts consisting of both faculty...
...machinations of the various ghouls on display. In that respect “Diary” simply shines. Due to the frequent bouts of narration that sometimes border on the overdramatic, it is almost impossible to leave the theater without understanding Romero’s central theme: in a modern time of crisis, people are more likely to stop and stare than try to help. This point is apt, and never more applicable than now, the era of YouTube, in which one man’s recorded misfortune becomes a complete stranger’s entertainment...
...Construccion,” and “Tren de Sombras,” were also screened over the three days. According to Guerín, the focus of his films “is the space...[the] look of the filmmaker, the look of the spectator...In modern cinema, the space of the spectator is bigger.” In “Sylvia,” he concentrates on the conflict between a man and his surroundings. In every film, there is a tension between the fiction and the documentary. It is “abstract...
...sunny beaches and spring break, Jack Johnson once again returns to the roots that have made him a perennial surfer favorite. Despite a clearly discernible continuity with his first five albums, “Sleep Through the Static” represents a greater awareness of world events and the modern, hectic lifestyle embodied in a somber tone and occasionally biting lyrics. But despite the new material, there is little growth in musical style from his earlier efforts. Befitting Johnson’s Hawaiian heritage and previous life as a professional surfer, “Sleep Through the Static?...
...bemoans the dilution of American intellectual ambition and the crippling apathy that has settled in its place.Using an arsenal of historical analysis, anecdotal musings, and hard-nosed scorn, Jacoby deconstructs American culture to reveal the virus of anti-intellectualism that has penetrated to its core. Her polemical work excoriates modern America as a societal landscape of spoiled heritage and unrealized potential, populated by Americans who are as ignorant and poorly educated about science as religion. Jacoby condemns unsparingly—objects of her criticism include Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, Katie Couric, and Virginia Woolf?...