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...work the crowd. The show, Wylie said, “represents years and years of dedication on the part of the skaters.” The Evening’s founder, John Misha Petkevich ’71 stood up during the show to thank the audience and to remind them of the show’s goal to help fight childhood cancer. “To see young people here, who perhaps 30 years ago would not survive, this is the greatest gift of all,” he said during the performance. Nine-year-old Yasmin Siraj...
...state, saying that she can relate to family members of those who died in these sudden, unexpected events. While these references to large-scale devastation seem melodramatic at times, they still serve as a sort of tie to universal grief, momentarily taking the focus off of Didion herself to remind the reader that this is above all a book about grief, not just one death.Yet it is ultimately Didion’s writing style that connects her to the universal human condition. What makes this book succeed is Didion’s uncanny ability to let the reader see through...
...left town for a friend’s place in northern New Hampshire.As 95 North became Route 16 and Chocorua Road turned into Chinook Trail, the little things that needed doing back at Harvard disappeared from my mind. Without the constant presence of red brick and ivy to remind me of scholastic obligations, I was able to do—for a sustained period—what is all but impossible at Harvard: relax.Instead of jogging through the Yard to get to section on time, my friends and I hiked through the woods with the impending sunset as our only...
Maybe in this dark time, we need an earnest liberal fairy tale to remind us of our better, more tolerant selves. But there is more to the intertwined stories of Murrow and McCarthy than this simpleminded, rhetorically driven movie begins to encompass...
Imagine, then, watching what came next, as she was declared a mediocrity, a crony, "the least qualified choice since Caligula named his horse to the Senate." There was such venom in the attacks that you had to remind yourself that unlike in past court dramas--the slaying of Robert Bork or Richard Nixon's ill-fated henchman G. Harrold Carswell--this was not just about her; it was about him, about Bush's promises and the dream of a permanent conservative revolution. Of all the things a President ever does, this is the one that lasts: he picks the jurists...