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...music,” she says. She had been raised with Motown and soul beats, but she discovered listening to country allowed her to concentrate.The “breakthrough experience,” she said, was when she had to type a 100-page screenplay for a North House seminar. “At first I started listening to it as a joke, and then I fell in love.”She found connections between the metaphysical poetry she loved and the crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit—the unification...
...philosophical issues that the characters themselves are struggling with. The show is ultimately really about redemption, and maybe more fundamentally, how does one lead a life.”These are issues that can be traced back to classes he took as an undergraduate, Cuse says. He took a seminar with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Agee professor of social ethics Robert Coles ’50, whom Cuse says became a mentor and a big influence.One of the authors who Coles assigned for his class was Walker Percy, whose writing influenced Cuse. As an homage to Percy...
...physics that refined quantum field theory. Michael E. Peskin ’73, who was Wilson’s doctoral advisee at Cornell and is now a professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, recalls how Wilson synthesized all of elementary particle physics into the Standard Theory at a seminar in 1974.Wilson drew boxes on a long blackboard, and each box contained some known concept about elementary particles. Then he drew arrows between all the boxes, explaining the connections between concepts that seemed unrelated or even contradictory.“It was just one of the most amazing experiences...
...doesn’t think she’s a superb replacement for Jorge Domínguez, who is a hard act to follow.” A picture of Simmons will one day greet those who enter the Blue Room—the Center’s main seminar room—where the photographs of her six predecessors now hang. “It would be fine with me if they would wait until after I was done, so I didn’t have to stare at it all the time,” she said. Having...
...first reacquaint myself with where we are in terms of appointments, in terms of our financial status, and in terms of our spirit.”During his deanship, which ended a year into Summers’ presidency, Knowles also encouraged greater faculty-student interaction. He expanded the Freshman Seminar Program and pushed for smaller sections in undergraduate courses.Beginning next semester, Knowles will oversee the looming debate over general education as part of the Harvard College Curricular Review. On Monday night, Knowles called the review a “major concern,” but did not specify...