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Raja G. Haddad ’05 is a published poet, co-founder of a film magazine, and a chef at Quincy Grille, among other things. Haddad is personable. If you ask, he will describe the details of an interesting film (“The Dreamers”) carefully and lovingly. He will eagerly mention his interest in law, in Social Studies, and in making crepes for late-night Quincy diners...
...society initiated its first female members in 1971—the first social club at Harvard to do so—and elected its first female president the next year. Even under her watch, however, the Signet continued to face allegations of elitism and sexism. Poet Adrienne Rich was invited for the organization’s annual dinner in 1972, only to storm out after a speech, which, she told The Crimson, showed that the Signet was clearly “a male-dominated institution...
ItwasJ.RobertOppenheimerhimselfwho chose the code name "Trinity" for the 1945 test of the atom bomb he had done so much to create. He would say later that he was inspired by a line from the poet John Donne: "Batter my heart, three-personed God." It was just like Oppenheimer, at a moment of triumph, to lay in a note of anguish. He may have been the physicist who led-- who drove--the scientific crash program at Los Alamos, N.M. But he was not a simple man. It tells you something that his idea...
...committee deliberates to choose a speaker who “is an accomplished writer of a certain distinction whose work would be of interest to the community,” Sacks said. The two lectures, one in the fall and one in the spring, are usually given by a poet and a fiction writer...
...true that law cannot make a poet but a poet can make laws, so it is true that people cannot make a poet but a poet can make a people,” Kincaid remarked. “Derek Walcott made a people. He made...