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...urinate by the side of the road: “With birdie in hand, he looked up at the stars. Eternity, eternity, said a Nietzschean murmur within him, how big you are! O starlight that floods the cosmos (his arc grew shorter and shorter)! Heaven and earth, clouds and space! said Bachmann aloud. Not so loud! Halftan called.” These are the moments when Bachmann’s personal experiences of the war and his mental trauma become beautiful and disturbing without dwelling on the historical, social, or political context. While the latter half of the novel lacks...
...asked to pay more when we pollute, as if the crisis has made us incapable of hearing or accepting that some of our habits need an immediate change. Instances like this open a space for those in positions of authority to make reasonable requests of the American people. Perhaps the president knows that he cannot ask us for this much. I would still welcome it if he boldly tried...
...compilation of feedback from focus groups, five House Program Planning Subcommittees, and a college-wide survey that was initially scheduled to come out in December—provides an action plan for the next generation of House life and focuses specifically on the areas of academic, social, and residential space. “Our overarching goal has been to explore the unique role and purpose of House life in the educational experience of Harvard students,” Hammonds wrote in a preface to the report. She stressed that this goal would be realized in spite...
...libraries compare to Dunster’s, but Eliot’s House library is comparable in beauty and can also boast of more space and much more reasonable hours. (The curator is often generous enough to keep it open till 1 AM on Saturday night.) The grand piano at the center is less useful than the harpsichord and grand piano in Dunster’s library, where there are actually concerts—so the piano just kind of sits there. I’m not entirely sure if any drunk people have wandered from C entryway into...
...Arts. Niisato’s work is currently on exhibition in Boston at the KEIKO Gallery. The exhibition, titled “Luminous Vessels,” opened last Saturday and will run through May 4. Keiko Fukai, the owner and director of the gallery, opened the space in 2003 to showcase contemporary Japanese art, hosting about nine different exhibitions a year. Interested in promoting Niisato’s work in the U.S., she invited him to exhibit at her gallery.“I contacted Akio about three years ago to ask him if I could exhibit some...