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...Russian pianist Lev Vlasenko dazzled Harvard students with his smooth piano playing in a dimly lit Adams House Common room, the political tension between the virtuoso’s native USSR and the United States was hardly visible. At the informal concert, the students seemed to forget that their respective countries were at war and simply delighted in each other’s company. In 1959, when the Cold War was at its pinnacle, and the relationship between the U.S. and the USSR was frigid at best, a team of 12 Soviet delegates came to Harvard as part...
...days and memorize it because it’s the best movie ever and anyone who hates Will Ferrell will have the smack laid down on their candy ass. 6. Become a dragon. 7. Manage a baseball team without letting anyone else know. 8. Host something in your room called a “crotch party.” Don’t tell anyone what it is. Just send out a Facebook invitation to everyone you know, including that girl from freshman year in Lionel who you never talked to after puking while hooking up. 9. Live every week...
...about the poems, a challenge he didn’t find in his science classes.In addition to his studies, Ostriker said he had “quite a bit of fun” in college, and Socolow remembered that empty vodka bottles lined the mantle in the room he shared with Ostriker and Robert B. Strassler ’59. Socolow, who is also currently a professor at Princeton, called his long-time friend “adventurous and intense.”He recalled one instance in which Ostriker tried to walk across the barely-frozen Charles River...
...space at all for people interested in art,” he said. “There was nowhere we could work.” Studios were reserved for students studying architectural science; students who wanted to create were often forced to use their dorm rooms as ateliers. Frustrated with the lack of space, Szanton approached a dean who conceded a two-room apartment in Dudley House. There, Szanton and a dozen other students could paint and sculpt. The apartment was hardly set up as a studio, but, Szanton said, “there was nothing else on campus...
...time Szanton graduated, the University had embarked upon two large-scale constructions to make room for the arts at Harvard—the Loeb Drama Center, begun in 1959 and completed in 1960 and the Carpenter Center, planned in 1959 and completed in 1963. These two projects, part of an overall plan to increase the presence of art on campus, gave student artists the space to thrive. But as the school built homes for the arts in brick and concrete, some students feared that creativity itself, under the University’s watch, would be rigidified...