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...strong conceptual education that students receive, Harvard’s filmmaking program is exceptional in its age and establishment. The Film track of VES was founded early, in 1969. Despite its small size, it boasts several notable graduates, including Mira Nair ’79 (“The Namesake??) and Darren S. Aronofsky ’91 (“The Wrestler?...
...Crocker’s eldest son, 43-year-old Adam—Adam Winthrop’s namesake??is the last American player to have obtained the highest possible rating of ten-goals (the scale begins at -2). Now Nick is a four-goal player recruited to play for money—something that happens to only one to three out of a hundred collegiate players, he says...
...bustling London to find a wife in the sleepy market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. In a house a short stroll from the home of William Shakespeare’s family, Harvard successfully courted Katherine Rodgers. The couple went on to sire our university’s namesake??John Harvard. And while the university was founded by a man whose parents very possibly knew Shakespeare personally, this fact did not foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life at Harvard from its origins...
...Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri’s novel “The Namesake??—about a boy raised by Indian parents in America—opened in movie theaters. The authors stressed that there is no one, all-encompassing Indian immigrant experience. Anand, whose first book “An Indian in Cowboy Country: Stories from an Immigrant’s Life?...
...Histories” tell us that King Xerxes of Persia filled the Hellenic peninsula with his barbaric hordes, ready to conquer and command Greece. Vastly outnumbered and representing the alliance of Greek city-states, 300 Spartans—the movie’s namesake??held their ground for three days at the pass of Thermopylae, where numbers mattered less than in open ground...