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...aware that non-concentrators often make them look like hot stuff (easing the unspoken section curve.)History B-06, “The Roman Games,” while not an “Images of Alexander the Great”-style gut, is nevertheless a crowd-pleaser among the non-concentrators. “Staged beast hunts” in the course description? Straight money. Among other antiquarian choices, Professor Christopher P. Jones’ History B-09, “The Christian Revolution” is well regarded (but not taught this year). Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine...
...you’re up for a bit of a challenge, you might want to look at A-72, “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” taught by superstar crowd-pleaser Leo Damrosch. As the name implies, the material is rather abstract: you’ll look at different ways Enlightenment writers conceived of and depicted the “self.” Damrosch is dynamite as always—you’ll learn a lot in this course—but the grading is pretty harsh and the concepts tackled...
...midterm, and a final (sometimes even a final paper). Lectures can be horribly boring, so your first exercise in reasoning is choosing which course to take.MR’s behemoth, MR 22, “Justice,” taught by Michael Sandel, is a perpetual crowd-pleaser. You will read philosophical heavyweights like Rawls, Mill, and Locke, making this a great introductory course for wannabe gov or philosophy concentrators. You’ll also learn some stuff about Kant, which will enable you to slip the categorical imperative into basically any section discussion for the rest of your...
...This is a poem. I found it in the library, for my son,” and seem to promise an unusual tale of soul-searching. Yet the film almost immediately devolves into predictable, mediocre jokes and characterizations. It seems to want desperately to be a crowd-pleaser, but it’s trying so hard that it feels a bit disingenuous...
...operetta: it’s not really a happy ending. As the story isn’t known to everyone, I won’t reveal its conclusion, but suffice it to say that Gilbert and Sullivan were obviously trying to aim higher than your standard crowd-pleaser. Keeping in that tradition of classically British humor, the performers do a great job of allowing us to laugh in the face of other people’s misfortune; only the most sensitive of viewers would consider this production a tragedy...