Word: playful
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...We’re Dartmouth’s biggest game,” Murphy said. “They go crazy to play Harvard. We will get their very best shot. Those guys will be very excited to play...
This year, the Crimson (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) looks to avoid a repeat of 2003 and remain undefeated in all-important Ivy play when it faces the Big Green (1-5, 1-2) at noon tomorrow at Harvard Stadium—where the Crimson has won 18 of its last 20 games, including every Ivy contest since...
...feet.” In the same way, the American jazz musician who befriends Gardner, has a completely different syntax that instantly identifies him as a member of the L.A. music scene: “If it’s pop they want, it’s pop I play. R&B? Fine. Car commercials, the walk-on theme for a talk show, I’ll do it. I’m a jazz player only when I’m inside my cubicle.” Ishiguro’s on-the-spot prose makes for a delicious...
...pathos and surrealism. Ishiguro examines the absurdity of how humans protect themselves from the outside world and the moment in which this protection begins to wear down. Eloise McCormack, the self-professed virtuoso cellist who coaches young Tibor on his technique, eventually confesses that she cannot play the cello. She justifies this by claiming that other, less-gifted teachers would have destroyed her innate gift if she had taken lessons with them: “I knew I had to protect my gift against people who, however well-intentioned they were, could completely destroy it.” Yet this...
...madness of the French Revolution and the madness of the everyday overlap and intertwine in “Marat/Sade,” the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of Peter Weiss’ 1963 play, “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.” The production, which opens tonight and runs through November 7 at the Loeb Experimental Theater, tells the story of that infamous character for whom the term “sadism?...