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...department of art history at Columbia University; Alexander Eliot, a former art critic of TIME; and Alessandro Conti, a Florentine historian of restoration technique who published a book on the issue. Eliot makes the ridiculous claim that "nearly half of the Sistine ceiling has already been reduced to postcard quality." Beck sees the cleaning as a "dangerous step, taken without real knowledge or adequate cultural background." Eliot compares the cleaning to the shuttle disaster; Beck, to Chernobyl...
Those four scenarios above basically summarize my attempts at finding a purpose for my time after Harvard. Last summer, I wrote a postcard to The Crimson from Beirut. I was working for a non-profit (without a glossy brochure, to be sure) coordinating an exchange program between Middle Eastern and American college students. The summer before, I conducted experiments on the spore covering of the anthrax bacterium, finding lab work too slow-paced to really capture my interest. This past summer, I was one of those pasty i-bankers emerging squinty-eyed into the sun after a long summer spent...
Irene Y. Sun ‘07, a history and science concentrator in Mather House, is design chair of The Crimson. She wrote this postcard to manipulate you into thinking she likes to manipulate people...
...Bucolic Bacchanalia” (Postcard, July 1) by Matthew A. Busch. Aside from his sardonic tone to describe our town—one would think that a writer for such a publication would think of something more witty than the easy target “Dixfield”—he egregiously misquoted our town’s motto. Upon entering Dixfield, drivers are greeted with signs reading “The Only One,” not “It’s the only one,” as Busch wrote. This seemingly slight error reads...
...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...