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...Office, (617) 496-2222. $12/10/8. Whatever else one may think about Tony Kushner’s dramatization of the fall of Communism in Russia, the punctuation of its title is certainly unexpected. After all, whatever the play’s oft-discussed “spiritual genius of the Slavic people” actually is—suggested answers include sorrow, vodka, and the motherland—it’s pretty clear that it’s not the kind of joyful exuberance that requires an exclamation point at the end. Kushner is, of course, the type of playwright...
...said the new site is “user-friendly and straightforward,” and that it aims to provide a broad range of results for each search. Some of the first students to use the database gave positive reviews to the OIP site. A joint anthropology and Slavic languages and literature concentrator in Winthrop House, Alexandra M. Fallows ‘08, said she “was surprised to find out how many opportunities there were, especially since [she] was searching Russia.” Last academic year, 451 Harvard College students studied abroad?...
...arguing about a label for themselves and their work. They settled this dispute, according to art lore, by thrusting a letter opener randomly into a French-German dictionary. The word it pointed to - dada - has many meanings: "hobbyhorse" in French, "cube" in certain Italian dialects and "yes, yes" in Slavic languages. That night, they agreed on a name but continued to dispute what the word - and the movement - signified. Tristan Tzara, a Romanian poet and the author of the Dada Manifesto of 1918, came up with what may be the only accurate definition: "Dada means nothing." That presents the curators...
Faculty Council member and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie A. Buckler said she was pleased with the new version of the report...
...post will be filled by Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Sue Brown, who beat out 75 other candidates...