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...Madama Butterfly” met with diverse reactions between Eastern and Western audiences—while wildly successful at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1907, it met with some confusion by Japanese audiences, who sometimes did not know what to make of Western tonalities. Rodger and Hammerstein’s “The King and I” elicited shock from most Thai who were offended by the portrayal of their much-respected king. The list goes on.Ultimately, such is the power and the danger of artistic license. Inaccuracy, deviation from fact—these are useful. However...
...Rodger Kamenetz helped shift the spiritual center of liberal Judaism. His book The Jew in the Lotus combined the chronicle of a delegation of Jews visiting the Dalai Lama with an investigation into the possibilities for meditative mysticism in a Jewish context. The avid curiosity it provoked helped launch a thousand Kabbalah classes. Kamenetz's follow-up, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters, won the National Jewish Book Award. But his latest offering, The History of Last Night's Dream, diverges in content and tone. TIME's David Van Biema wondered whether he was straying from...
...weight room, strength coach Craig Fitzgerald gives his players a unique motivational mantra that influences their eating as well.“I’m gonna swipe in, load up my tray, and light my hair on fire,” says junior offensive lineman Tom Rodger, invoking the coach’s favorite inspirational phrase.As a result, these linemen are constantly conscious of their weight and eating habits. After commiting to join the team in their senior year of high school, they are given a goal weight by the coaching staff. The incoming players are expected to meet...
...service to my country and my education.” Cooper held off on the Harvard inking until his junior year. “I waited until it was obvious that I would graduate,” he explained. The inspiration behind Harvard tattoos varies. Thomas E. Rodger ’08 claims his block H tattoo—in the style of the Harvard football helmet—is “more of a football tattoo than for the actual school.” Nik A. Sobic ’06-’07, a self-described...
...injury particularly harmful.After the incident, Harvard coach Tim Murphy suspended Velissaris and Lane for the 2006 home opener against Holy Cross for exercising “poor judgment.” The night of the altercation, another Harvard football player was arrested in a separate incident. Sophomore Tom Rodger, an offensive lineman, was charged with intent to commit a felony and disorderly conduct when he allegedly reached into an unoccupied ambulance parked outside of Currier House. While the EMTs aided a sick student, Rodger allegedly stole a pair of rubber gloves. When a police officer and an EMT reemerged from...