Word: sharpness
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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...
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...
...love that the school is invested in, and willing to put out the effort and money to, support sustainability,” said Spring Greeney ’09, who has registered for the conference. “People were thrilled about the conference,” said Leith Sharp, director of the GCI. “They seem to be very happy about what’s going on at Harvard.” The conference continues through Saturday. Environmental attroney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak today and the President of the U.N. Foundation Timothy E. Wirth will...