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...hypocrisy. Directed by Faith O. Imafidon ’07, and co-produced by Christian I.C. Strong ’09 and Jessie E.A. Washington ’09, “In the Blood” updates Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic text “The Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenn?...
...spirit of Nathaniel Hawthorne looms large over Harvard. Several classes are more or less centered around him, and few English concentrators are likely to graduate without reading “The House of the Seven Gables,” or, morelikely, “The Scarlet Letter.”It is perhaps not surprising, then, that Black Community and Student Theatre (BlackC.A.S.T) chose to produce “In the Blood,” one of Suzan-Lori Parks’ adaptations of the latter this coming weekend, Nov. 9 through Nov. 11 at the Agassiz Theatre.Though this...
This gave me pause, because it made me realize that I, too, would probably never vote for a Mormon or a Muslim presidential candidate. Being thoroughly inculcated in egalitarian values, this epiphany made me somewhat queasy at first. But I’ve come to embrace my scarlet letter. Why, after all, would I choose to vote for a person who subscribes to some ideas that I might find deeply disagreeable—just to attire myself in the self-congratulatory virtue of tolerance...
...system.”Junior co-captains Laura Mahon and Suzie Trimble were both named to the All-Tournament Team. Trimble hit .408 on the weekend, while Mahon posted 35 kills and 50 digs over the three matches.HARVARD 3, RUTGERS 1After a slow start, the Crimson dominated the visiting Scarlet Knights for most of the match, topping Rutgers 3-1 (24-30, 30-22, 30-15, 32-30) on Saturday afternoon.In game one, the Scarlet Knight offense controlled the tempo, registering just two attack errors and notching 21 kills. Though neither team led by more than two points through...
...nothing like the tourist brochures out here on the wildflower trail. The promised expanses of everlasting daisies are a riot of brown, the crippling drought postponing, if not canceling, their show. Here and there a scarlet burst of desert pea catches the eye, and the soft orange of the acorn banksia glows above creamy white smokebush along the road, but this season's wildflower hunt demands a little more effort...