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The world gets nostalgic for great men. Plutarch felt similarly wistful around A.D. 100, when he wrote his wonderful Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans--shrewd side-by-side comparative biographies of dozens of bygone political characters: Demosthenes and Cicero, for example, Caesar and Alexander.
Some critics of the film (notably Frank Rich of the New York Times) argue that the Gibson’s Catholicism is out of touch with contemporary Catholic thought, since the Second Vatican Council absolved the Jews of the guilt of murdering Jesus. This criticism is not accurate. All four...
Among them, she says, is the claim that Greek would have been the proper language of communication between the Romans and Jews, not Latin. Fredriksen further maintains that any last-minute changes Gibson might make to the script won’t be sufficient in cleansing it of inconsistencies.
The panelists, Adele Logan Alexander ’59, Susan McHenry ’72, Angela Romans ’92 and Gail Snowden ’67, spoke about how being black at Harvard and Radcliffe has changed over the years and their experiences as a minority.
Romans, now associate director of admissions at Brown, said that during her years at Harvard there were a lot of discussions about interracial dating because there were 90 black women and only 48 black men—encouraging black women to consider dating people of other races.