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Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: At the beginning of the year, I told my third grade teacher to go easy on me in regards to spelling because they spell a lot of things differently in Jamaica. She bought it and never marked me down for spelling errors...
...inspiration has always come from my teachers. Throughout high school my English teacher, seeing something special in my writing, encouraged me to continue writing, and so I did,” says Justin T. Keenan ’10. Keenan, a member of the Harvard Book Review, The Harvard Advocate, and Harvard’s poetry magazine, the Gamut, has seen several of his stories published on campus, and recently submitted a collection of stories as his creative thesis in the English department...
...performance of Green as the worshiped teacher and mentor carries this tension and gives weight to the disparity between the beautiful and the miserably ugly. Miss G acts the part of the charismatic leader, the model of enlightened womanhood to her girls, but the façade is never fully convincing. There is something lurking behind the smile. The keen observer knows from the beginning, owing to the tortured duality of Green’s acting, that Miss G is no Jean Brodie—she lacks that famous character’s intelligence, refinement, and life-experience. The shallow...
...started playing piano and composing at the same time. My first music teacher taught me both, which is pretty unique,” says Christopher T. Lim ’10, who has been playing and composing classical music since childhood. “That’s how I began my training, so I’ve never really tried to pursue any other genre of music. There’s a lot of possibility for expressivity, detail, creativity, and complexity...
Sweeney has not “taken a few months off” in years, and came to the IOP only months after stepping down from the AFL-CIO. He says his wife Maureen, a retired school teacher who has shuttled back and forth from their D.C. area home and Cambridge many times this semester, sometimes says, “‘When are you going to retire?’ and I say, ‘the pension checks come...