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...time again, he provides us with more and more resistant strains of fiction. The humanities, resisting science, seem to want to hold it back so that the old truths hold. Powers, on the other hand, is positively straining to see what’s coming, writing with the passion of the discoverers in the sestet of Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” In a world that is, above all, confused by its own amazing progress, Powers is a stabilizing force, taking a step back, slowing down, to show...
...role as a poet as a fundamentally social one. This is partly through necessity—“You can’t make a living as a poet just by writing poems,” he says—but also, it seems, because he has a passion for engaging individuals as well as audiences. Referring to his teaching job, he acknowledges the limitations of education in the creative arts but is adamant about the possibilities. “If they’re not set up for poetry, you can’t change that...
...McCarthys this year, though, and though they’ve been great House masters, I’m going to miss the discussions over dinner of the latest modifications we’ve done on our cars. Added to the alienation of having nobody to talk to about my passion are the trials and tribulations of trying to have a car while at Harvard. On-street parking generally requires a resident parking permit, which would require me to register and insure my car in Massachusetts, at a possible cost of over a thousand dollars a year. Flout the rules...
...Magnificent Ambersons. The film collection is immense; “it took over [the Justs’] whole townhouse—except for the kitchen and bathroom,” said HFA Director Haden Guest. “That kind of collection is only put together with great passion and patience.” The pieces in the Just collection were originally indexed by filmmaker and subdivided into films, Guest said, and the HFA has decided to keep that system. The gift continues more than a decade of Lothar Just’s philanthropic relationship with Harvard, who began working...
...herself. The Harvard women will compete again on October 2 against rival Yale at Franklin Park in Boston. When asked what enabled her to give it her all towards the end of the race on Saturday, Silva answered with a simple yet heartfelt response that reflects her passion for cross country and her dedication towards her team. “Before the race, I think of all the training I’ve put it in, and I feel that I owe it to myself and my team to put my hardest work in,” Silva says...