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...themes through a variety of artistic lenses. She performed, for instance, several dramatic monologues by the Greek gods of the underworld, Hades and Persephone, which, although often reflecting Stallings’ characteristic irony, gave the poet a fertile literary topos in which to make some very thought-provoking, even profound, meditations on death and dying...
...exhibit was a powerful memorial to the profound pain victims of sexual assault experience. A printed sign at the display said the goal of the project was to provide a forum for “survivors of a crime that is all too often kept silent to LET THEIR VOICES BE HEARD,” and certainly the exhibit met this objective when a victim admitted on a shirt, “I was raped by a group of boys...
Despite this one weakness, The Rotters’ Club is a fun and informative read, capable of both making the reader laugh and of delivering profound statements. In many instances, the novel serves as a light satire of British institutions, gently poking fun at their interesting idiosyncrasies. A particularly funny example of this is a classroom scene in which a student asks the teacher if a poet whom the class is studying is gay. After berating the student, accusing him of having a “grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that...
...campaign shows how easily the term “raise awareness” can become a euphemism for “advertise.” Ribbons should be a way to express a sincere dedication to an issue, not just a more profound way of advertising than posters or fliers, which we so often discard or ignore...
...There is no greater satisfaction then providing a test to animals and watching them succeed or fail, for even the latter tells us something profound about how they see the world,” says Hauser, who started the lab in 1992. During his time at Harvard he has conducted experiments in knowledge perception, acoustic recognition and concept formation, among other fields. He has published four books about primate behavior, taught at several universities in the United States and conducted field research in Uganda and in Puerto Rico, where he invites some of his students each year...