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...VeggieTales” are also a part of a departure from past Christian media in another way. Instead of simply presenting a big-budget Christ story, they take an approach that Stevens described as “veiled” or “roundabout.”“It’s an attempt to dress up the Christian message in forms that consumers are already familiar with,” he said. For examples, Stevens points to “VeggieTales,” children’s stories whose Biblical messages often aren?...
Marjorie Garber, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language, talked this week to The Crimson about the structure and direction of the department and her own roundabout journey to VES Chair.The following is a transcript of highlights of the conversation, with slight emendations for the sake of clarity...
Marjorie Garber, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language, talked this week to The Crimson about the structure and direction of the department and her own roundabout journey to VES Chair.The following is a transcript of highlights of the conversation, with slight emendations for the sake of clarity.The Harvard Crimson: Have there been any serious initiatives in VES recently to make any kind of significant policy changes?Marjorie Garber: Well, I don’t know if “policy” is the right...
...difficult as you want to make it. I don’t intend to waste the opportunity, but I am hoping to unwind a bit after an intense five years in L.A.,” Carroll wrote. Carroll’s decision to come to Harvard marks a roundabout journey. First coming to Harvard as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism from 1971-72, Carroll declined the curatorship of the Nieman Foundation in 2000. “When I passed up the Nieman job, I didn’t have any plans beyond doing a good...
...scene he's less likely to shout than to stare or slouch--or sob, as he does, quietly but with naked intensity, in The Constant Gardener. It's his way of inhabiting all sides of someone like Justin. "I love it," he says, "when a film shows a character roundabout and through and through. A man may have wonderful qualities and also have weaknesses." Fiennes' strength is revealing the power, and the danger, that reticence masks...