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...father and son who try to survive while traveling through a ravaged American landscape that has been destroyed by some unspecified disaster. Both the inner and outer lives of the father and son are essential to the novel’s message. The external scenes where the pair hide from a band of roaming cannibals or chase a thief who stole a shopping cart holding their only food are filled with a basic human vitality that is lacking in “American Pastoral.” Moreover, a simple exchange in dialogue in which the father asks...
...decided contrast to this shadowy room is the location of the bulk of the story’s chapters, in which the aforementioned pair of men reappear as Richard Elster, a former scholar employed by the military to “conceptualize,” and Jimmy Finley, the young filmmaker who wishes to record Elster’s account of his experience in one, long take. After initial resistance to the idea, Elster invites Jimmy to stay with him in the vast remoteness of a Western desert—“Not a long visit, he?...
Within each pair, the photographs contradict and complement one another. Horn, as a late adolescent blanketed with curly brown hair, is juxtaposed with Horn in her middle ages rendered androgynous with her grey crew cut. The composition of each of the photographs—Horn’s head tilted to opposite sides—produces a reflective quality; one image could be flipped across the vertical axis to cover the other. This mirror-like possibility literalizes the actual mirroring of subject matter. The similarity and differences within the pair are simultaneously stressed...
...Harvard wrestling team (2-14-1, 0-5 Ivy) closed out the regular season with another pair of difficult losses on the road, falling to Columbia, 30-15, on Friday night before suffering a 44-6 blowout at the hands of No. 6 Cornell on Saturday. The Crimson was outmuscled in both contests, but co-captains J.P. O’Connor and Louis Caputo remained in dominant form, earning four of the team’s five wins on the weekend...
...Saturday’s contest against Wagner, six players split Harvard’s 10 goals. Junior Patricia Smith led the Crimson with three goals in the game, while sophomores Ita Kettleborough-Barton and Kennifer each scored a pair...