Word: readerly
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...that he occupies are keys to modern religious life, yet each of them defies easy labels. Like faith itself, what you see in each of them—ideas of good and bad, of pious and heretic—is a matter of how you choose to look. Each reader, like a worshipper, can find his or her own message in the religious tale...
Even if the reader is only an 8-year-old cartoon...
...work is very, very acutely sensitive to aesthetic issues,” Shakespeare scholar Stephen J. Greenblatt, the Cogan University professor at Harvard, said yesterday. “She’s a marvelous close reader of poetry. There are many qualities one would associate Larry Summers with, but an acute aesthetic sensitivity is not the first one that would come to mind...
...America has it wrong and the truth has never been clearer than it is this fall. Welcome to The Fall Arts Preview, where you, dear reader, can overdose on the astonishingly broad range of artistic options that can be seen at Harvard this fall...
...London two years later, but her mother and sister died in concentration camps in 1943. Shanti, meanwhile, joined the British army as a dentist and lost his arm at the battle of Monte Cassino. After the war he married Henny and, astonishingly, took up dentistry again. So what? a reader might ask. "I wasn't sure there would be any interest in this story," Seth confides from the office of his London publisher. "My mother asked me to interview Shanti Uncle because he was sick and lonely. She thought it would cheer him, and I thought it was my duty...