Word: playful
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...Duffy was a candidate for the prestigious position ten years ago, but narrowly missed out due to, observers believe, concerns over her lesbian relationship with fellow Scottish poet Jackie Kay. Indeed, there were also suggestions that former Prime Minister Tony Blair thought her sexuality may not play well in Middle England - a notion that would surely amuse Duffy, considering one of her best known works is titled Poet for our Times...
...hometown Cardinals’ Director of College Scouting to come to school in Cambridge, it wasn’t the first time he had expressed interest in studying at Harvard.Over a decade earlier, Kantrovitz was a star high school shortstop looking for a place to play college ball.“I got some great advice from a high school baseball coach,” he says, “which was to pick your college as if baseball doesn’t exist there.”With this in mind, Kantrovitz looked for a program that could cater...
...Jordan A. Reddout ’10, “The Quad” explores the tumults of the college experience against a background of upbeat rock music and piano music. Although it is made by college students, performed by college students, and presented to a college audience, the play explores a series of universal themes: conformity, infidelity, loss and renewal of respect, inability to express emotions, loneliness, death, and love.The two-act play opens with the entire company singing “Starting Today”; it is in this atmosphere of new beginnings that the audience is initially...
...That line gets right at the heart of ‘The Space Between,’ a new play at the Loeb Mainstage, conceived and directed by Catherine “Calla” Videt ’08. This incredibly ambitious production is the first student-written play to appear on the Mainstage in 15 years. While Videt’s subject might be theoretical physics, what she’s really interested in are moments where the science is inadequate to explain its own implications; equations may have built the bomb, but they can?...
...trade between Asian economies is picking up, that trend lends weight to the belief held by many economists that Asia could emerge from the recession ahead of the U.S. and Europe, based primarily on improved economic activity within the region. "Intra-regional trade will play a much more important role in a recovery (in Asia) than people thought," says Andrew Freris, senior investment strategist for Asia at BNP Paribas Wealth Management in Hong Kong. "And that is good news." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...