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Traversing city ports and fishing villages in Indonesia, and performing with a shadow puppet troupe in Cambodia: these are some of the ventures that recipients of this year’s Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship will undertake next year. This year’s recipients of the fellowship, which offers a stipend of $18,000 to graduating students for a year of purposeful travel, are Matthew A. Busch ’07 of Leverett House, Olivia H. Gage ’07 of Adams House, Emily W. Hogeland ’07 of Currier House, Kelly...
...more furtive, insultingly small appearances in movies. Sometimes her scenes were cut out of the film. She ended her career staring up at Wayne in Overland Stage Raiders and seemingly out of her element, her refeened voice clashing with the homey cliches and the guy who has a sassy puppet on his arm. Her final words in a Hollywood movie: "Try to keep me away!" She left for good two years later...
...puppet show at the Peabody Museum celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead became the scene of protests denouncing the Mexican government last night. About 30 protesters—carrying black crosses and Spanish-language placards—rallied outside the show, calling attention to deaths in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where labor unions, leftist activists, and Indian groups have taken over the capital to demand the governor’s resignation. The protesters targeted the show at Harvard’s Peabody Museum because one of the event’s sponsors was the Consulate of Mexico...
Rarely do golfers acquire nicknames, but Harvard sophomore Emily Balmert merits this treatment. Not for her superb play as of late, but for her epic, humorous stories that leave her teammates responding with much more than a subdued golf clap. Known as the “Puppet Master” to her teammates for her use grand gesticulations to augment her many words, Balmert combines a warm personality and strong on-course leadership to be a substantial contributor to the Crimson women’s golf team’s early tournament success this season. Balmert entered her second season...
...asks a lot of questions. If that sounds like obscure French philosophy, consider this. In 2004, after Harvard University asked Huyghe for a work to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its visual arts center - the only North American building designed by modernist master Le Corbusier - Huyghe created a puppet show. That's right, marionettes on very visible strings. The idea was to compare the artistic conflicts Le Corbusier had with university authorities - the Mr. Harvard, Dean of Deans puppet is a threatening black specter - with similar problems Huyghe encountered in mounting his show. This is Not a Time for Dreaming...