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...Cosby, who said she is an aspiring novelist, called Black a “family friend” and a mentor. “He’s been very generous with information, with helping students get their foot in the door,” she said. Another participant, Siena T. Konscol ’08, said that Black’s workshop provides “really good encouragement to stick with the craft of writing despite all the myths that are going around about the industry.” In an interview before the seminar, Dreyfuss said that...
...final tune up before the start of league play, the Harvard women’s water polo team split its two games in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on Sunday. The Crimson beat Siena, 10-5, before falling to Marist in a tight game, 5-3. Next weekend, Harvard begins its league play against Northern Division opponents Hartwick, Queens and Utica. Crimson captain Arin Keyser said the weekend set the team up well for league play. “You never like to lose, but it can be a good learning experience for the team,” said Keyser, who scored...
...Mozart effect" empire. "It has to be more complex than that," he says. "We're not doing Mozart a favor to reduce him to an effect." But in this Mozart anniversary year, it seems, anything goes. Just ask Carlo Cagnozzi. He's a Tuscan winemaker in Montalcino, near Siena, who has been piping Mozart to his vines for the past five years. He first had the idea as a young man, when he would bring his accordion to the grape harvest. Playing Mozart round the clock to his grapes has a dramatic effect, he claims. "It ripens them faster...
Sometimes you have to travel to a wine's home in order to understand its character. Last fall, after the harvest in Italy, I stood atop the ruined fortress that looms over the ancient town of Montalcino, the birthplace of Brunello, just 40 km southeast of Siena. From the fortress, I devoured the panoramic view of the Tuscan countryside. In the distance, the grapevine leaves were as colorful as New England's autumnal best. Clumps of olive trees and upright cypresses were shadowed by the brooding Monte Amiata. The whole ambience was distilled in the Brunello I was drinking. Seeing...
...Jesus' birth to 36, the Aristotelian "prime of life." In contrast to earlier descriptions of a distant and alienated parent, Gerson portrayed (in a 2,957-line poem, among other vehicles) an adoring father to Jesus: "Joseph leads him," he wrote. "Joseph soothes him with kisses." Meanwhile, Bernardine of Siena, a powerhouse preacher whom Miesel describes as "the Billy Graham of his day," scored points with the Italian merchant class by pointing out that in Egypt and back in the Nazareth carpentry shop, Joseph would have had to have been "a diligent administrator...