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Pankaj K. Agarwalla ’04 knows what the Roman poet Catullus meant when he wrote, “Amat victoria curam,” or “Victory loves diligence...
Foil, Agarwalla explains, is a literary device “which refers to points in the poem where the poet does not directly praise the victor, but instead uses another topic or theme to create a contrast which then affects the praise...
...English department cancels a poetry reading by poet Tom Paulin after over 100 students and faculty members expressed concerns over Paulin’s anti-Israeli views, but he is reinvited one week later. Paulin ultimately never comes to speak...
...SASC-sponsored rally. The students marched to Bok’s office and displayed petitions favoring divestment signed by students and Faculty. Chris Nteta, a member of the African National Congress, Donald Woods, an exiled South African editor and Neiman Fellow, and Dennis Brutus, a South African poet and organizer of the international sports boycott against South Africa, all spoke at the protest, urging Harvard to divest from its holdings in corporations operating in South Africa...
...could be a difficult man. "As inhuman as glass" is how he was once recalled by his friend Max Jacob, the gay French poet and Jewish convert to Catholicism who also insinuated himself for a time deeply into the life of Picasso: "Everything in [him] tended toward purity in art. His insupportable pride, his black ingratitude, his haughtiness." But Modigliani sprang after all from a proud and unconventional family. He was born in the Tuscan port town of Livorno, a cosmopolitan city where Jews had lived freely since the Renaissance. Educated and progressive--his mother shocked her in-laws...