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...catch much at auction due to wear and tear.But that’s not really the point. Private collections might be this comprehensive, but this collection is one that’s open to any Harvard student, free of charge. “It’s a reader thing!” Talbot says. “You know, it’s good that kids can just come in here and plow through this stuff.”While no one is quite sure how the comic collection got to Quincy, what seems clear is that...
...becomes a powerful tool; her thoughts, stripped of the context or fictitious garnish that would mask them in a short story, become uncompromisingly honest.Although simplicity is a key component of the volume, Paley is still a very technically competent poet. The poems have no commas or periods, giving the reader the sense that the collection represents Paley’s internal monologue, a continued sequence of thought without any punctuation except the occasional pause. Great care has been taken with the pauses, as well: Paley uses line breaks and spaces within the lines to create varied silences and to modulate...
...added. Miran Pavic ’09, the editor-in-chief of The Voice, agreed that the concept of the project is radically different from existing campus publications and media groups. “It’s going to be student-oriented, modern in layout and design, and reader-friendly,” explained Pavic. “There are many interesting people in this community, but they don’t often have a platform for their voices to be heard,” Duque agreed. “We hope to tap into that...
...previous memoir “Paula.” Allende warned the audience beforehand that the book had “nothing spiritual or profound in it. It’s just gossip.” The sell-out audience, filled with both dedicated fans and new readers, responded enthusiastically, frequently interrupting her Spanish-accented speech with appreciative laughter. Allende read three chapters from her book. In “Searching for a Bride,” she described her struggles and accomplishments as a matchmaker for her son Nico. In “Ballroom Dancing and Chocolate...
...musical form; artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., 2Pac, and DMX have replaced Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan as the new prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes...