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...simple pleasures of the musty, dimly lit, and seemingly innumerable corridors of Widener: now the books are going online.With new developments in the digital revolution—an opaque term that essentially denotes all technological progress—the literary landscape is increasingly being pushed into the digital realm, for better or for worse. And while some students may relish the era of yellowed pages and crackling spines, Harvard is making its way onto the digital scene in force.HARVARD’S DIGITAL INITIATIVEThere is, on the most basic level, a dual front to Harvard’s progress...
...masses, and one spectacular encounter between the evil sorcerer Oswald, Cupid, and the tutelary spirit of the frost.The set design, which consists of sliding panels that close and open up, approximating an authentic baroque set, allows the production to move between the world of spoken dialogue and the rarified realm of the masques.The cast and crew speculate that the masques’ focus on the aesthetic and the figurative has allowed them to age more gracefully than the unmusical parts of the script.“People have to interpret the spoken dialogue as comedic now,” Powell...
...partake of the “fruit of life”—apple slices—before ending the ritual with a dance to raise energy in a “Cone of Power.” Despite the ritual’s focus on death, the realm of the dead doesn’t feature any red horns or pitchforks: “We have nothing to do with the devil,” says Phoenix. —Esther...
...thing that must not happen among immigrant generations is for pre-existing American values to assert superiority over foreign ones by sheer virtue of their predominance. Which values persist and which ones fade away should be recognized and questioned on their own grounds, not left to the realm of the inarticulate psychological subconscious...
...Organizations all over the world, without any direct connection, have appropriated its name. (The Freemasons reportedly have an "Order of the Knights of Templar," thus consummating a kind of conspiracy theorist's dream marriage.) Such homages should not obscure the fact that however much power they enjoy in the realm of fiction and fantasy, it almost certainly does not equal that which they once actually possessed - and then abruptly lost...