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...Rodin was quick to recognize not just Claudel's pensive beauty but also her talent and to promote her to collectors and critics. She was just as quick to absorb the lessons of his work, in which figures could seem as though they were modeled from magma, erupting from the earth in anguished or compelling postures. Her early portrait bust of Rodin, with the fiercely modeled turmoil at its base, might almost have come from his hand. In a sense, of course, it did. But in time his example would prove too formidable. Rodin had rethought the human body more...
...full possession of his powers. The real question is whether Claudel would have become what she did without Rodin, who fostered her gifts and then, perhaps, overwhelmed them. What she became, for a while, was a sculptor of some consequence. After that she devolved into an increasingly erratic talent, struggling to escape from Rodin's shadow and eventually ending up in a mental hospital. Their romantic misery can't be blamed for all of Claudel's mental difficulties, but it surely played its part. Sharing a bed with genius is an adventure. And adventures can be dangerous things...
...successor is moving along, he did tell The Crimson that “people recognize that taking this position will put you a little bit in a fishbowl.” In other words, the scrutiny that the top job at HMC comes with has turned away top talent. And that doesn’t even take into account the pay cut anyone moving from the private sector to HMC would take...
...endowment that HMC manages. Given the disparity between the market rate and HMC’s rate—the first nearly double the second, according to Meyer—alumni have no basis for complaining about the salaries paid to HMC’s top talent. Indeed, Harvard should be ready to pay HMC employees even more if that’s what it takes to attract talented managers...
...grow at its fullest potential—a potential that can only be reached with high levels of compensation and reduced alumni scrutiny. Alumni should realize what is in the best interests of the University and bite their tongues while the University replenishes HMC’s depleted talent pool—even if doing so carries a high price...