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...dance, recently became available to undergraduates. Students of drama in particular have long pushed for more academic acknowledgment, either through the creation of a department or concentration. “There’s been a long and difficult process getting credit for theater,” said Robert Scanlan, who chairs the Committee on Dramatic Arts, the group of faculty and artistic leaders that proposed the secondary field. Development in the area, which formally began with the creation of the committee in 1978, has been slower than at many other universities, Scanlan said. Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, and Stanford...
...perhaps the most indicative highlight of the evening was when pianist Robert D. Levin ’68 wowed the audience with a celebratory improvisation, in which he assigned specific letters of the alphabet to the keys on the piano and composed a song using only the keys that corresponded with the letters in Faust’s full name...
...When she disappears after she is discovered to be neither Chilean nor upper-class, Ricardo, already lovestruck at the ripe age of fifteen, fears he will never see her again. But he does, and often; as Comrade Arlette, a guerrilla fighter being trained by the Cuban revolutionaries; as Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a French bureaucrat; as Mrs. Patricia Robinson, the wife of a British racetrack regular; as Kuriko, the mistress of Japanese mobster; as Lucy, a broken woman. Vargas Llosa has worn many hats himself, from a prominent Latin American intellectual who hob-nobbed with the likes...
...world. Activists say their main task is to urge international policy makers to acknowledge the crisis in Uganda. “Society triages situations, and this crisis has been going on for so long that it got put on the back burner,” said HCCUP President Robert J. Ross ’09, who organized the screening. “It is seen more as a national issue, a small rebel movement that Uganda can deal with on its own,” said Ross, who is also HHRA’s director of advocacy for Africa. Alison...
Reading “Gulf Music” is an active exercise of introspection and observation of the modern world. In his first book of poetry since 2000, Robert Pinsky confronts global chaos and uncertainty while examining longstanding philosophical questions involving everything from memory to the mundane. His skeletal poems skillfully tie together the past and the present, exploring the capacity of collective memory and selective forgetting while leaving ample room for readers to reach their own conclusions about human suffering and contemporary existence. Pinsky divides “Gulf Music” into three sections. The first poems, which...