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...Nikos Kazantzakis novel and Paul Schrader's script, Scorsese has found a story vibrant with melodrama and metaphor. This Jesus (Willem Dafoe) is not God born as man. He is a man who discovers - or invents - his own divinity. And he is both tormented and excited by the revelation. This Judas (Harvey Keitel) is a strong, loving activist. He wants to overthrow the Roman occupiers, while Jesus wants freedom for the soul. To fulfill his covenant, Judas must betray not Jesus but his own ideal of revolution. He must hand the man he most loves over to the Romans...
Sarah Duant will be discussing her novel Birth of Venus. This historical fiction combines sacrifice and betrayal during Florence’s captivity under Savonarola to create a fascinating and intriguing story. Amanda Foreman has described Birth of Venus as “a tour de force”. 7 p.m. Wordsworth Books, Cambridge...
This semester, visiting Professor in History Catherine Allgor is teaching a conference course entitled “The World of Little Women,” which uses Alcott’s novel as a primary text. Modifying a course she taught at Simmons College, Allgor hopes to use the course to discover to what use historians can put such novels...
Little Women’s historical use aside, the class still gets sentimental over Jo’s love life and Beth’s death. Several students admitted to crying while re-reading the novel...
...novel arrangement, approved by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last September, has already prompted 70 percent of eligible trust holders to make the switch from standard Harvard trusts to investments in higher education’s largest endowment...