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Last week, when the Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy won the prestigious (well, if you’re a Classics concentrator, at least) Onassis International Prize, he also received the added perk of $200,000 prize money. Too bad he doesn’t actually get to spend it. But for the popular professor of Literature and Arts C-14, “Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization,” whose proclaimed interests are archaic Greek literature and oral poetics, the award and recognition in Greece were enough. Plus...
Everywhere the Heath brothers look, it seems, there is a lesson to be learned. The Nature Conservancy gives tracts of land spiffy names like the Mount Hamilton Wilderness--a better ring than "1,875 square miles of environmentally critical ecosystem"--and donations perk up. Chalk that up to the power of being concrete. The Texas department of transportation casts Dallas Cowboys and Houston Astros in testosterone-soaked ads telling drivers "Don't mess with Texas," and roadside litter drops 29% in a year. Consider it a score for an emotional appeal to identity--a way of getting litterbugs to believe...
After criticizing the direction of the American liberal arts education system in his recent book, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 is headed to Hong Kong to perk up a few more ears...
...have responded to the film, obviously, I think, see something in it that they’re not seeing in other films.”Bujalski’s voice is perfectly suited for this generation; what remains to be seen is whether he can get us to perk up our ears and listen.—Staff writer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu
Bujalski’s voice is perfectly suited for this generation; the only thing that has yet to be seen is if he can get them to perk up their ears and listen...