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A project to mount flowers on trees around Harvard Yard and the revival of a ballet based on the comic strip "Krazy Kat" were among the 10 offbeat proposals selected this week to receive funds from the Harvard-Radcliffe Arts Council.
Claire Mallardi, Radcliffe dance program coordinator, also received a grant which she will use to choreograph and perform an original dance piece.
In the theater category, the Harvard-Radcliffe Classics Club for the production of Sophocles' "Ajax" was given money as well as Rebecca L. Crandall '87 for her staging of excerpts from Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting."
Brandt's next project will be a book on the history of cigarette smoking, asking why people smoke and how it got to be popular, considering the issue in terms of class and gender. For instance, he says, in the 1920s, smoking was a feminist issue--Radcliffe women rioted because...
"I met Jennifer when she was a freshman. She was interested in knowing what Radcliffe was about, and mostly, she was looking for a community of people both older than herself and younger. She was looking beyond her own age group," says Radcliffe Dean of Students Philippa Bovet. "I found...