Word: pursuits
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...shell shock of the Depression in America and the absurd opulence of the country's postwar era both inspired him. In one image, a young couple dances in a "voodoo trance" (ca. 1956); in another, a burlesque showgirl whose glorious body drips with glitter sips water backstage. Weegee's pursuit of regular people in their mundane vulnerability and well-knowns such as glamour model Bettie Page and actress Eva Gabor created a body of work that became emblematic of all New Yorkers, native and transplanted: the average, the wealthy, the hurting, the dead...
...months-long search process bound to consume the campus, that long list will be whittled down to the single individual who will ultimately set up shop in Mass. Hall.The stakes are high. The completion of Summers’ unrealized vision for the University—the pursuit of reforms to the undergraduate experience and curriculum, a formidable expansion across the Charles River into Allston, and the prospect of a record-setting capital campaign—may ironically be left to his successor, who must chart the future direction of the University.“This is the most important decision...
...talk with law professors about their fields and their academic writing. Covering the curricular review afforded me the opportunity to look back at Harvard’s tumultuous educational history and even build up an “emeritus” section in my phonebook. But my extracurricular pursuit at The Crimson not only gave me access to the professors who make this University great. It also taught me many practical lessons, foremost among them, that leadership is about standing with others, not standing above them—a lesson that I could not have acquired in the classroom, where...
...goal that students know the words to the football songs, or even “Fair Harvard” (the University hymn is one bridge too far), we’d be in trouble. The real spirit of undergraduate life can be found in our students’ restless pursuit of excellence and innovation, in hundreds of different and not always intersecting ways—from the seminar room to the laboratory to the cramped, creative corridors where students stay up all night to put this newspaper...
...College. According to Teresita A. Bjelland ’76, who was a pre-business resident tutor in Worth’s entryway her sophomore year, Worth has used her position to reach out to students around the world.“She is relentless in her pursuit of making Harvard a possibility to those farther away and with no familiarity with the ‘American Dream,’” says Bjelland.Harvard has adopted Worth’s pioneering spirit and become one of the first colleges to recruit in Africa, a crucial and largely untapped...