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Excerpt: “By establishing a close correlation between such disparate Southern Renaissance writers as Faulkner and O’Connor we can begin to appreciate the power of the ‘old child’s’ significance. This [...] motif merits our closer examination—first because it is a figure which recurs throughout the literature of this period and second, because the ‘old child’ represents these Southern Renaissance writers need to dramatize the bitter argument that rages within them...
...true believer in the power of this profession to be a force for good,” she said. “Where would we be without a press that’s uncovered injustice, corruption, inhumanity—or a press that’s on the cutting edge of reform, civil rights, desegregation and of all the smaller but vital issues that affect us every single...
...sense of our importance was no doubt inflated by this proximity to power,” he said...
America was born in war, or through it, and I think it is continually defined by war: from a colony to a united states, from a house divided to a union, from a country to a world power. I choose to study the history and literature of war because I know we can find, there, some fundamental aspects of our nation’s character. War, I believe, is an act of self-definition. It reveals not only what a country is, but also what it hopes to be. I learned this in class—in "The American Revolution...
Having graduated its top three scorers—two-time Olympic gold medalist Sarah Vaillancourt ’08-’09, Jenny Brine ’09, and Sarah Wilson ’09—Harvard took solace in its star power at the other end of the ice, where senior goaltender Christina Kessler turned away other teams’ forwards at will. Kessler set the NCAA all-time career save percentage record in the 2009-10 campaign, becoming the Crimson’s all-time winningest netminder in what would be the final game...