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...Nebenzahl's title somewhat misleadingly suggests, the parameters of this collection coincide roughly with those of Asia. The "silk road" here distends geographically and semantically to encompass any and all lands east of Western Europe. But the Orient is more than a geographic orientation for the collection?it is an evolving and affecting idea. Nebenzahl's mapmakers?with only two exceptions?are Westerners, and the pictures they drew of unknown lands reveal more about Europe's imagination than Asia's landscape...
Havard could be a somewhat daunting place for many students, and particularly for women, in those days. Our class was 60 percent men, it was not especially diverse, and there was a larger contingent of legatees than there is today. There were also far fewer female professors, teaching fellows, and graduate students...
This luck somewhat eased the sting of a heartbreaking Friday overtime loss in the Big Green’s Thompson Arena, and it made Saturday’s skin-of-the-teeth tie to the Catamounts (19-11-4, 13-6-3) crucial...
...strike the right balance between the hyper-directed mental focus of a performer and the disassociative analytical processes taught by Harvard. According to Buswell, one of the immediate downsides of a liberal arts education is that “you examine things to such a degree that it somewhat blunts your potency as a performer...
Having struggled with this balance, I have learned much from Buswell’s insight. Looking back on his student years, he recollects that “your art becomes somewhat more questioning than assertive. Your self-assurance becomes less solid, in a healthy way.” He eventually learned to put the pieces back together, calling his experience “a digestive process. Once you can redevelop your own artistic personality, you come out much stronger and confident...