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...needs a purpose in his life - through the end, as Sam becomes increasingly ill from being on the road. The plausibility of this bond has as much to do with the artist Dan Burr's sensitive and realistic portrayal of the characters as much as Vance's sharp writing. Burr's black and white drawings are as powerful at depicting emotion as they are of depicting period and place...
Directed by Gregory La Cava RKO Radio Pictures Inc. “We started off on the wrong foot. Let’s stay that way.” Who hasn’t wanted to whip out a line that sharp? But most of us don’t have that kind of quick wit. It’s mostly confined to the hilarious comedies of the 1930s, particularly “Stage Door,” the timeless story of a boardinghouse full of young actresses trying to make it on Broadway. If modern heroines were witty enough...
...gave the earthy vacation spot a thumbs up. “It was great to get away and not worry about campus activities,” she said. “I imagine the forest would be absolutely gorgeous in this spring weather.” Nathan A. Sharp ’08, who visited the forest with an Adams tutor, was impressed with the forest’s dedicated staff. “The most amazing thing is that Harvard actually pays someone to sit there year round and poke holes in the trees to count the number...
...skiing accident. Although he said he was pleased with his victory, See said, “the main purpose we came was to meet people and have fun.” The event featured guest performances by Harvard’s Asian a cappella group C-Sharp and University of Pennsylvania’s Chinese a cappella group PennYo, a play on the word “peng you,” Chinese for “friend.” Erkin Y. Uyghur ’08 performed traditional music of his native Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern...
...Zhan's views are a sharp reminder of the complexity with which many Chinese view the U.S. The modern history of China is a still-unfolding tale of a proud, millennia-old civilization coming to terms with a new, shocking world in which other nations are more powerful and technologically advanced. As the dominant player in that story for more than half a century, the U.S. occupies a unique place in the Chinese imagination. To immigrants and students, it is the "Gold Mountain" - a land that, ever since the gold rush in 19th century California, has epitomized the promise...