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...persuaded by listening to that scholar who, when facing similarly recalcitrant questions and doubts, implores us, cheers us on, raises us higher, and guides us by showing us facts among appearances. Maybe, there might still be more to do. A whole lot more to do. We owe it to ourselves to find out. For even the glimmer of that possibility must be seized, seized with a relentless ferocity and a blazing fury...
...Jewett '57 will serve his last day as our dean. In his 31 year tenure at the College, Jewett worked tirelessly to craft the policies that have shaped and sustained the type of community that Harvard College is today. It is largely to him the students and staff today owe their gratitude. We will miss you, Dean Jewett...
...hire an illegal immigrant, even though such hiring was not prohibited by law at that time? (No, says Davies: Even though Wilson was mayor of San Diego at the time, neither he nor his wife, who did the actual hiring, knew of Klag's undocumented status.) Did Wilson himself owe back Social Security taxes? (Yes, says Davies: "Because you and Betty shared a household, you share the liability for failure to withhold Social Security taxes prior to your separation...
...funniest shorts of all belong to the English. Both "The Wrong Trousers" (a one-time Oscar winner) and "Bob's Birthday" (this year's winner) owe much of their irresistability to their particular brand of British humor. These two films are well-known among those in The animated know and for good reason...
...lack of formal training shows, but the pieces require no apology and display a true melodic gift, reminiscent of Schubert and Schumann. Paradoxically, this heroic visionary was most at home in such small-scale works; his more ambitious pieces for two pianos (written in 1871 and '73) owe much in vocabulary and gesture to Liszt and Wagner. But the seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin fantasy anticipates Debussy. And the songs--which were written mostly between 1861 and 1864 (though the moving Prayer to Life dates from...