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PRINTS AND PRIVILEGES: REGULATING THE PRINT IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY ITALY...
...current Prints and Privileges: Regulating the Print in Sixteenth Century Italy show at the Fogg is not one to be raced through. It requires concentration. You have to be, unlike me, willing to read all of the fine print. My first time visiting the exhibit, I walked through the hallway and one room a bit confused. I could not ascertain what the thread was that linked these varied Renaissance prints together. I was totally oblivious to the point being made...
...exceptional; Koch hasmastered the art of bringing out the subtleties oftone and changes of mood in a poem withoutoverdramatizing it, remaining respectful to thepoem without making it monotonous. Particularlyeffective was the poem "Straits," which was alsothe best poem he read, shifting rapidly betweenscenes of political revolution, literary history,sixteenth-century maritime exploration, musicalperformance, conversation about bankers andphilosophical abstractions about love. Kochcaptured each shift with subtle variations of thepitch and intensity of his voice, and brought theelements together at the conclusion of the poemwith great lyrical skill. His subtle intensitymade the line "Do you remember the idea ofrevolution?" ominous, memorial...
...weeks ago as I was moving into my summer residence, I calculated that, if I include summer experiences (as a child, I often attended two different overnight camps in one summer), this was the eighteenth time I have moved into temporary housing, as well as the sixteenth time I have moved into temporary housing with people I do not know. For some reason, the real people who administrate our lives before we join their ranks have decided that people like us can be shuffled around at the drop of a hat, and we have willingly accepted that premise...
Harvard still outdistanced its Ivy League brethren--Columbia was eleventh, the University of Pennsylvania was sixteenth and Cornell was nineteenth. Stanford was seventh with an estimated I million Web visitors...