Word: performativity
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...addition to being serenaded by the Wu Tang Clan and Gavin DeGraw at Yardfest tomorrow, Harvard students will get the chance to see former Dispatch band member Brad Corrigan perform at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub next Thursday. Brad Corrigan will be playing with his band Braddigan, which he formed in 2003 after Dispatch disbanded. Braddigan members, who are performing for Harvard Concert Committee’s (HCC) “Rock for a Reason,” are set to take the stage at 9pm on Thursday, April 24. The night’s repertoire will...
...addressing world political issues like Israel and Palestine, but it is also a small, intimate portrait of three young, white, Ivy-educated males. Are you at all worried about the charge of navel-gazing? How does this affect the cultural or political work that your book might perform, if at all?KG: This happens to be the stuff that right now I can write best about and with the most insight and the most depth of any other subject in the world. This happens to be what I know. It’s possible that I’ll learn...
...Although the Crimson had a strong effort in the first half, the tempo of the second was quite different. “I think we need to work on our fundamentals,” Pais said. “We just need to be able to perform when we are a little bit tired.” Dartmouth quickly scored two goals to start off the second half, each of which followed a contentious call—one on ball control and one on a false start. “We had a bit of a defensive lapse...
Shakespeare speaks directly to those suffering wars and oppression. When Julius Nyerere became the first President of independent Tanzania in 1964, he translated Julius Caesar into Swahili, then sent actors into villages to perform it and discuss the dangers of overweening power. Today, Arab and African exiles across Europe imagine a bloody vengeance against their leaders, those tribal Macbeths and oil-rich Caesars. As Kenya descended into violence last January, Leo, a Rwandan exile in London, rang me. One day, he said, the citizenry will bear this no longer, just like the citizens of 15th century England who rebelled against...
...We’re asking a lot from him as a freshman,” tri-captain Brooks Scholl says. “We’re putting him against the best defensemen on each team.”While the highly-touted Gibbons clearly possesses the talent to perform at the college level, such an intimidating introduction undoubtedly has taken its toll.“[Gibbons] was nervous his first few games,” tri-captain Nick La Fiura explains. “He started right away and that puts lots of pressure on a young...