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...Faculty. The selection of essays has varied slightly from year to year, but the one mainstay has been Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”I thought of that essay the other day when I happened upon “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” by former Dean of the College and current professor Harry R. Lewis ’68. Lewis’ criticisms run the gamut, but the one that caught my eye was his description of student extracurricular involvement. With more than 300 student...
...voice inside rapidly began rehearsing a litany of soul-searching Carrie Bradshaw-like questions about the intended and unintended consequences of our collective curricular efforts. Is it true, as President Lowell once famously declared, that Harvard freshmen “bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years”? Do we, as faculty, perceive the “spark of creativity” in the students who arrive here, then proceed to “water” it, as he is reputed to have declared at Commencement? Is education...
...wrote her essays in the chaos of her North House—now Pforzheimer—room, she would listen to Cambridge’s country radio station.“I hated country music,” she says. She had been raised with Motown and soul beats, but she discovered listening to country allowed her to concentrate.The “breakthrough experience,” she said, was when she had to type a 100-page screenplay for a North House seminar. “At first I started listening to it as a joke, and then...
...might be tossed his way, Bergman was surely the most probing writer of women's roles, the most sympathetic director of actresses. Harriet and Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom caught fire in the Swede's existential dramas. He wrote searing roles for them; they gave body and soul to his ideas, becoming for a time his muses, often his lovers. Bergman's last, most lasting actress liaison was with the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. Her soft features and stern resolve inspired a string of stern masterworks, starting with 1966's Persona, in which she played a mute actress...
...myth that compares Barry Jr.’s performance as head of the family business with what Worth might have accomplished.”But Bingham quickly assumed authority, and during his tenure the paper won three Pulitzer Prizes.“He poured his heart and soul into The Courier-Journal,” Daniloff says. “It was difficult for him because he was a slow reader, and yet he insisted on reading everything in the newspaper every day.”Bingham hired the first full-time ombudsman in 1969, then instituted the first...