Word: sharp
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...detective story, but the missing character is the author himself. Fusing text, traditional comic pages, gag strips, and photos, the book's form reflects its fractured content as it swings from detective pastiche to domestic anecdotes to meditations on the role of art. Through it all, Campbell maintains a sharp eye, strong wit and stimulating intelligence. Though not entirely coherent, Campbell's big thinking and sense of humor make The Fate of the Artist well worth enduring the brief moments of head scratching...
Last weekend was a busy one for Harvard sailors: some traveled to Yale to participate in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Championship, while others stayed sharp in local regattas. At the end of the weekend, the No. 2 Crimson celebrated a third-place finish at New Englands that clinched a spot in the National Championships at the end of the month. NEISA TEAM RACING CHAMPIONSHIP Winning took a back burner in New Haven last weekend—the focus for the teams sailing in the New England Championships at Yale was finishing in the top three. And with...
Schama's subtle history is a webwork of characters: early American abolitionists like Washington's aide-de-camp John Laurens, determined slaves like the self-named "British Freedom" and scoundrels too numerous to mention. His heroes include antislavery pamphleteer Granville Sharp, who subsidized a pivotal English court case on behalf of an American slave who escaped from his master while visiting England...
Lord Mansfield, the judge hearing the case, was no abolitionist firebrand like Sharp. But he too had reason to know that blacks were human. His nephew had fathered a child by a black woman. The child, Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, lived with Mansfield and his wife. When war came, his much discussed decision in favor of the slave was taken by African Americans as another incentive to wish Britain well...
...Witty, sharp, and hilarious—these words fit when Aristophanes first wrote “The Birds” in 414 B.C. This past weekend, April 27 to 29, at the Agassiz Theatre, the words fit again—but the Harvard Classics Club elevated these definitions up to a whole new level. Directed by Claire E. Catenaccio ’07 and produced by Paul D. Franz ’07 and Alexandra M. Helprin ’07, the Classics Club production boasted not only a primarily student-translated version of the Greek text but also...