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...There was shared frustration among the candidates who weren't chosen because we felt we weren't being asked questions that really showed our personalities," Familian said. "They asked narrow questions outside the scope of our projects. I was particularly frustrated because the committee didn't seem as interested in the unconventional mode that I was studying...
Porter said the appointment indicated to him that Harvard recognizes the scope of his work and is happy to see him work in areas that traditionally fall outside the purvey...
...show like this, so sprawling and vagrant in its scope and so impressionistic in its detail, is bound to be plagued by the question, If this, why not that? Especially nowadays, when we are used to assigning the same density of meaning (or lack of it) to a pot or a cigarette case as to a painting. Few visitors, for instance, will find their hackles raised by the inclusion of those essential emblems of California street art, the custom car and the hot rod. But if anything, the trouble is that the show seems rather weak on them. Good that...
...three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin seamlessly and idiomatically alternated between bowed and plucked notes). However, it may take several more hearings before I can comprehend the full scope of the work, as I was sometimes lost with the dramatic direction of the work. Still, Martino, a former Professor of Music at Harvard and winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in music, was in attendance and warmly acknowledged the performer...
...ability to create something useful out of nothing, a kind of ingenuity. And as for Harvard undergraduate women in particular, most are incapable of inactivity; lounging around becomes boring if they're not doing something with their hands, so knitting becomes the key to relaxation. As my wide scope of research shows, Harvard women never only knit--they knit and watch movies, or knit and gossip or knit and do anything. It's a preoccupation, something productive to be done anywhere, to kill time in the dorms, to relax before vigorous athletic competitions, to relax after vigorous athletic competitions...