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...Picasso in the last decade or so before the artist's death in 1973, and his account has a firsthand authority that subsequent biographies will lack. Those casually interested in Picasso may be advised to start their reading elsewhere; Richardson is not teaching Picasso 101 here but a postgraduate seminar that brilliantly corrects and fills in small details of a big picture that students are expected to know. It is a pleasure to see Picasso, his lovers and friends and rivals in the heady days when art mattered more than anything and greatness was only a passionate dream...
Other audience members included students from Pipes' freshman seminar one year ago, a man whose grandmother knew Lenin and an Israeli woman who grew up on a kibutz indoctrinated with socialist philosophy...
...first class meeting of the biology seminar Conservation and Biodiversity, a course with a significant (often cold and wet) fieldwork component, the instructors have one firm guideline for the students: no whining...
...that I did one simple thing differently when I went about writing these: I did not write for the sake of getting it over with so I could do more exciting things than my academics, but rather I got excited about creating something that made me proud. For a seminar paper, I integrated information that had interested me from other classes and outside reading. In another non-economics course, I looked at the question from an economic perspective and I realized I was actually interested in my topic when I sat down to write...
...Steve Largent (R-Neb.) skipped the Harvard seminar because the Heritage Foundation invited him first, according to his press secretary...