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...sheet shows tiny first thoughts for the dying slaves which formed part of that scheme. One poem starts: "Alas, alas, I have been betrayed by my fleeting days ? " and concludes: "There is no harm equal to that of wasted time." The rest of the page is covered with odd figures by himself and pupils: a giraffe, a crab, a grasshopper, a skull. As the show travels through the artist's long life, the drawings, always impressive for their sheer brilliance, become increasingly personal: less part of a process and more meditations on profound themes. Studies for a Deposition...
...book, added that “we would only have 12 published Dickinson poems if this were the case. Instead we have nearly 2,000—some good, some not so good. I’m glad to have them.” “The eighty-odd poems that this famous perfectionist allowed to be printed over the years are ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ as a poet. This book is not,” Vendler writes. According to New, it’s important to save the work of the poet who once wrote...
When a Harvard crew team that had claimed seven consecutive national championships in odd years—and zero in even years—finished an uncharacteristic fourth in last year’s national championship race, both history and the Harvard lightweights were vanquished in one 2,000-meter course...
...men’s lacrosse team, despite its national ranking.All these factors conspire to keep Harvard athletes on roughly the same plane as the rest of us. They help to reduce the potential for athletes to develop a sense of entitlement that comes with celebrity status. In an odd way, Harvard students’ general apathy toward our sports teams helps to avoid situations like the one currently plaguing Duke.The Duke situation is further exacerbated by all manner of race, class, and geographical issues. Durham has a very hostile relationship toward the university. Durham, the North Carolina home to Duke...
...Turen is an odd name for a Chinese company. Ren means person, but tu is more complicated. Literally the word translates as "earth" or "soil," but it's often used as a slur, a put-down for anything that is backward or unsophisticated?the manners of a migrant worker, bad teeth, cloth shoes. When Yu's colleagues answer the phone, "Turen," it sounds like they're calling themselves bumpkins. Yu himself remembers being called tu when he arrived in Beijing from a rice farm in Zhejiang to enroll at the Beijing University of Forestry in 1980. He was 17, could...