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...university, and for debates that happen about a university. If we fail to make our voices heard about the most critical issues Harvard faces, its future will be poorer. And so as irritating as a group like SLAM can be, the next time I read an overly shrill statement given in support of one of their campaigns, I’ll at least respect the fact that they’re expressing an opinion in an effort to make Harvard a better place. It’s their silent opponents who are doing Harvard the disservice...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani | Title: Why I (sort of) Like SLAM | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Based on a true story, The Vagrants is a bleak masterpiece, written without sentimentality, its anger a cold, controlled fury rather than a shrill rage. The surface of its unshowy prose disguises an enormous achievement for the realist political novel. Li's relentless calibration of the cost paid by the innocent to sustain a dehumanizing and brutal sociopolitical order marks it as a milestone in the literature of oppressed, extinguished lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rage Against the Machine | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

Tired of Draconian hours at most House libraries, and even at Lamont? Adams is here to open its welcoming arms, saving countless undergrads driven out by Lamont’s shrill 9:45 PM bell. On a Friday or Saturday night, they can simply walk to Adams. Although Adams is not the best place to study during a dining hall party, in most cases it provides an ideal haven for refugees from other Houses. So, thank you, Adams...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Harvard's Finest House Libraries | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...perky female vocalists singing, “Is that scary?” By the end of the song, Oldham’s voice strains as he attempts to raise it over a rising cacophony of accordions, guitars, and additional back-up vocals, now chiming in with a shrill, “Beware...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...most-talked-about art of the past decade or so was shiny, shrill and brazen. Damien Hirst's diamond-crusted skull, Jeff Koons' big mirror-steel bling things, Richard Prince's slutty-nurse paintings: they were all the swaggering output of a boom time. There were plenty of artists working in a different key, but no one could claim that anguished moralists were the representative figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artist William Kentridge: Man of Constant Sorrow | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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