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...audacious to hope that the recent earthquake disaster, together with the upcoming Olympic Games, might nudge the Chinese towards abandoning their ancient, inefficient writing system - the real Great Wall of China - and adapt the Roman alphabet? Alex Farkas, Sunnyvale, California...
...Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired HBO; June 9; 9 p.m. E.T. The 1977 conviction of director Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist) for sex with a minor was the very model of modern media circuses. Marina Zenovich uses archival and new interviews to show how the court and press made an example of the (admittedly guilty) filmmaker. A thoughtful look at celebrity, justice and the incompatibility...
...categories furthest from their concentrations—they inevitably will be taking Gen Ed classes within their fields. Three humanities classes were also approved. Classics professor Kathleen M. Coleman’s Culture and Belief 17: “Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games”—adapted from Historical Study B-06—will probe why institutionalized violence was so popular in ancient Rome. Romance languages and literature professor Doris Sommer’s Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 13: “Cultural Agents”—formerly...
...There hasn’t really been anyone specializing in scientific thought in Ancient Greece and the Greco-Roman world so far [at Harvard],” he said. “If there’s any room for growth in the classics, a pretty traditional field, it’s in disciplines on the edges...
Classics professor Kathleen M. Coleman's Culture and Belief 17: "Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games"—adapted from Historical Study B-06—will probe why institutionalized violence was so popular in ancient Rome...