Word: paged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Okay, you got that 15-page paper due tomorrow and can't get out tonight. Fear not, because tomorrow night you can hear Warren "Werewolves of London" Zevon, 7 p.m. at the Berklee performance Center. $7.50 big ones, kids. Hell, it's not my money...
...METAPHOR which Gardner places like a frame around his book acts in this way. On the first page he tells a story from Norse myth: Thor, Woden and the gods must fight off the trolls, the forces of chaos, but the only weapon remaining to them is Thor's hammer. For us, Gardner says, that hammer is art. Writers must take it up and strike, before the Gotterdammerung. The tale acts as a light, disarming way to begin a book with such a solemn title. But from the first pages forward Gardner relies on the logical force of this tale...
...Opinion Page is a regular feature of The Harvard Crimson that presents responsible opinions by members of the Harvard community and others. These articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editorial staff of The Crimson...
...Affairs and the Institute of Politics, see Harvard in year-long glimpses. Young journalists on leave from their jobs in America and around the world, Nieman Fellows spend their time here taking courses, talking with students and faculty members, and thinking about their work and about Harvard. On this page, one Fellow describes his thoughts as his year ends, and another discusses a problem he has learned about during the past year-the tenure system...
...walk from the pond to the studio. In his genius for rendering evanescence within a monumental structure, Monet became a master of le temps retrouvé: the most Proustian of painters. His truer literary equivalent, though, was the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. The blank page, for Mallarmé, trembled with possibility, as calm water or the tight-stretched canvas did for Monet. Its white flatness was not an absence: it was a poetic element, possessing the character of thought. "The intellectual armature of the poem," Mallarmé once wrote, "conceals itself, is present-is active...