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When it was originally released in 1973, “Berlin” was to be Lou Reed’s masterpiece. Following hot on the trail of his smashing glam rock success “Transformer,” Reed said that “Berlin” was going to “totally destroy them [Reed’s fans]. This one will show them I’m not kidding.” Or so he thought. Instead, “Berlin” flopped—or nearly did, anyway. The album was reviled...
...will be strongly felt.Upon graduation from Harvard, Crichton received Summa Cum Laude honors and became a member of Phi Beta Kappa before earning his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1969. He began publishing books under various pseudonyms shortly after receiving his undergraduate degree, and one of his first successes was a 1968 novel called “A Case of Need” about an abortionist. From that point on, many of his works focused on warning of the dangers posed by emerging technologies, netting him a label as a “cautionary tale” novelist.He...
...says Erica K. Senat ’12, who plays the roles of the prostitute Molly Malloy and Mrs. Schlosser. “With the overload of news coverage today, I think it is relevant to see.” The play’s Broadway success and numerous film adaptations can also be attributed to its lighthearted comedy and clever use of language. For Hecht and MacArthur, who thankfully quit their day jobs to give the public an unadulterated looked behind the scenes of the ubiquitous media, words are definitely not used sparingly. Monologues? Forget about it. Three people...
...believe in it,” he says. “So many of my closest friends didn’t even believe it would happen.” The East Asian Studies concentrator is nevertheless quick to credit all those involved with making the show such a success. “We have great people who gave up their lives and really believed in it,” Parent says. “Last year I was literally doing half of the stuff by myself. None of this would have been possible now if all of these people weren?...
...beginning of the 1960s, though, liberalism was becoming a victim of its own success. The post-World War II economic boom flooded America's colleges with the children of a rising middle class, and it was those children, who had never experienced life on an economic knife-edge, who began to question the status quo, the tidy, orderly society F.D.R. had built. For blacks in the South, they noted, order meant racial apartheid. For many women, it meant confinement to the home. For everyone, it meant stifling conformity, a society suffocated by rules about how people should dress, pray, imbibe...