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...training [at the ART] has always been based on the Stanislavsky method," Brustein said. "Now we'll have the people whom Stanislavsky actually taught passing his method along to our students...
...most part, the East has a different philosophy in teaching horseback riding than the West does. I was taught how to ride in Wyoming by some cowboys who put me on a wild horse with no helmet and sent me off galloping into the sunset with a bunch of equally clueless beginners. Fortunately I survived this 'sink-or-swim' way of teaching without breaking my neck (only a few bruises), but obviously this is not how Boston Equestrian teaches riding or they'd in court every day facing massive lawsuits...
Indeed, this is what Harvard has taught me. All those books in Widener and Lamont are worthy not so much for the revelations in each but for the collective truths housed therein. And, in each of our educations, the various kernels of wisdom picked up from this course and that are not themselves the keys to wisdom, but as a whole, the plurality of them, the bounty of diverse thought, is the substance of truth, which is what this University stands for and what it teaches. But it teaches this truth, veritas, only by teaching it in parts...
...Ottoman history has always been taught at Harvard in a manner of speaking," he said. "The chair means that the effort to bring [Turkish studies] under the curriculum has finally come to pass...
...precise as stilettos. The smile of smarmy Lord Mark (Alex Jennings) says, "He's boring" or "Her money is too new" or, late at night when he's drunk too much, "You'll do." His friend Maude (Charlotte Rampling) has a practiced irony in her smile; life has taught her to walk gracefully among land mines and, en route, to plant a few. The smile of journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache) carries a soft ruefulness, something that understands failure. And in the smile of Maude's niece Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter), there is a sly gravity, a love...