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Every year for the past 14 years, the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater revives a portion of every undergraduate’s childhood by putting on a performance of “The Ugly Duckling,” a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. The performances run all through the weekend of Arts First...
...which is just gross, but also mostly accurate. An ice luge at a party results in a number of negative effects. Inevitably, a large amount of alcohol that missed its target mouths ends up spread across the floor, resulting in the typical sketchy, sticky floor. A large portion of the remaining alcohol ends up on the faces and shirts/dresses of those who try to use the ice luge, and nothing is more embarrassing than becoming the “awkward stain guy.” Is it sweat? Booze? Something worse? Nobody knows...
...TAPS will lose two graduating seniors and one third-year law student, reducing the group to five. At Harvard, it is especially difficult for small performing groups to become visible amidst larger, better-publicized productions. “I definitely felt the pressure this year, and we lost a portion of our usual audience because of these other shows. In the future I think we have to work on our PR campaign,” Driscoll said. “This is something I plan to discuss with the officers in the coming weeks, so we can make some important...
...taken seriously. “If I had a happier dream / this might have been a better poem,” he writes. However, it is precisely this addition of levity that offsets the often overly-sentimental voice that takes precedence in some of his other poems. Another large portion of “Rain” is composed of mysterious narratives. Paterson’s mystery, however, does not demand a literary interpretation or decoding, but simply asks to be absorbed, as a child might listen to a fairy tale. The opening poem of the volume...
...Saturday, many Syrians will celebrate their Independence Day by driving up into the foothills of Mount Hermon and picnicking amid the apple blossoms in that portion of the Golan Heights that remains under Syrian control. In recent years, the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has used the occasion to call for Israel - which has occupied most of the Golan Heights since the war of 1967 - to return the territory in exchange for an end to the conflict between the two countries, which have officially been at war since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. But the Syrian...