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...Warhorses” is divided into three sections. The first section, “Love in the Time of War,” is a series of poems written in loose sonnet form. Komunyakaa starts by evoking the savage war of primitive man (“An obsidian ax. A lion-skin drum”) and works his way through ancient war, through Gilgamesh, through Cain and Abel, through the visceral, bloody war of the past, to the darker and more terrifying present of torpedoes and secret wars...
...have the detachment from the audience that usually marks a classical performance. The audience and musicians were already familiar with one another, so there was little uncomfortable tension before the start of the piece.The performance of the Bartók was lukewarm. In the first two sections (of six), the strings played deftly, but the winds’ sound didn’t blend well and the orchestra sounded thick and almost noisy. In the third section, an energetic dance influenced by Romanian folk tunes, the strings came alive, unified hearty. While the ensemble was well-balanced, its dynamics were...
Paul-Denys Calixte ’10 said he enjoyed the dialogue. “I definitely liked the open-ended nature of the discussion,” he said. “We had a very good cross-section of views on the topic...
...high school girl who usually flips straight to the Arts section of TIME, but I read Justin Fox's Q&A about the bailout, and I think it was really smart to boil it down that way [Oct. 13]. Even I understood most of it. Still, for me, the obese elephant in the room is the question of where all the money went in the first place! Sara Makaretz, YARMOUTH, MAINE...
...most accounts, amid the controversy Ayers has kept a low profile. School officials say he is on a previously scheduled yearlong sabbatical and occasionally visits his campus office. He regularly posts musings about politics, education and the economy on his personal website. (The site's commentary section has an ongoing debate between fervent supporters and vitriolic detractors as part of a recent blog post by Ayers.) A new edition of his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, is expected to be published next year, and a film version is reportedly in development. Says Schubert: "He's resilient - he'll come back...