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...published in 1959. This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth anniversary.The novel was one of the first major works to bring Western readers the experience of an African man under colonial rule from an African perspective. It tells the story of the unsympathetic protagonist, Okonkwo, a volatile patriarch who attempts to reassert his status and masculinity against a tide of circumstances out of his control. Achebe’s most extraordinary feat in the novel is his ability to communicate Okonkwo’s poignant experience to Western audiences. But Achebe?...
...starts.” To highlight the interplay between them, Koch broke with tradition and put the musicians on stage with the dancers instead of out of view in the pit. She intentionally tailored costumes and movements so that at the beginning of her piece it is difficult to tell who is a dancer and who is a musician. “What I think that the art needs to move forward is exactly a collaboration of that type,” says Lauren E. M. Chin ’08-09, a dancer in the piece. However, Chin also...
Pforzheimer community. “I mean, Jim is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but he’s always so humble to talk to students on any issue,” she said. “And Sue is an amazing woman who has stories to tell and who is hilarious. She’s crafty, actually crafty—she knits.” Hadaway jokingly added that she will be “proud to be in the same graduating class as the McCarthys.” Jim McCarthy, who joined the Harvard faculty...
...January, he will move swiftly to temper the party's tone, using the model of Ronald Reagan, who, he says, "made it cool to be a conservative." But one of Steele's more daunting mandates will to be to broaden the GOP's base of black voters. "I'll tell local chairmen, 'If you want to be chairman under my leadership, don't think this is a country-club atmosphere where we sit around drinking wine and eating cheese and talking amongst ourselves. If you don't want to drill down and build coalitions in minority communities, then you have...
...restaurant to enjoy pork loin, sorbet and, they hope, some sparkling conversation. After discussing aphorisms served up in lieu of canapés, the diners pose questions to one another from a discussion menu that accompanies their meal: "When did you stop being a child?" reads one prompt. "Tell me about a memorable conversation you've had with one or both of your parents," reads another...