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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...
...that the section met at 10 a.m., class participation was off the charts: everyone had a literate and informed opinion as to what disastrous effects Nora Roberts and Danielle Steele were wreaking upon modern society. But when the TF asked what the “purely hypothetical” reader might gain from such a novel, the 15-person section abruptly fell silent. Ten audible ticks of the second-hand later, one of the bolder sophomores admitted, “Well, they’re titillating...
...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...