Word: roberts
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...know, just that they were men each consumed by a singular thought or idea - at least that was the case with the first part of Little Miss Sunshine. You don't see any parallels? In the case of [Robert] Kearns, here's a guy being marginalized by the Ford Motor Company and subsequently is marginalizing his own family. I suppose, if you look at Little Miss Sunshine, there was a guy who was losing his way with his family over his pursuit of a 10 Steps deal. Characters that have a real strong identification to whatever they're trying...
English professor Helen Vendler invoked the words of an English poet, Robert Graves, to describe the decidedly Irish Seamus Heaney, who read from his poems to a sold out audience at Sanders Theater yesterday. “But nothing promised that is not performed,” Vendler quoted, inspired by her colleague’s tireless devotion to his students during his years as both the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. When Heaney, a Nobel laureate, took the stage, he described it as “one of the greatest...
...they make mistakes. Nor was I asserting the superior accuracy of historians. I was arguing for the importance of reading all texts critically, a point worth stressing in this new information age, when readers tend to think that they have access to unmediated factual knowledge by consulting their computers. ROBERT C. DARNTON ‘60 Cambridge, Mass. September 19, 2008 The writer is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library...
...Robert W. Mack ’71, seeing hundreds of fellow LGBT alumni at Harvard this weekend was “like a mirage or a dream.”Alumni from all but two of Harvard’s living classes descended on Cambridge to celebrate the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus’s 25th anniversary, the country’s first-ever reunion specifically for gay alumni. Attendees and organizers said the conference is a sign of years’ worth of growth.“It is a culminating moment. There has been such an extraordinary...
...There won’t be as much variation [in grades], so it’ll be harder to pick out the best people,” said Robert W. Allen, the current president of the Law Review...