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Bill Gates, the father of the Geek Pantheon, has said that he will not read more than four or five pages at a time off of a computer screen. But digital consumption of text is growing every day. Most Harvard students lack even a cursory knowledge of what is contained in the prodigious collections of Widener Library, and few could navigate the stacks without a map. In this generation of HOLLIS-dependent undergrads, the only romance associated with the library can be found in the smutty open dialogue of Bored@Lamont or late-night hookups in Widener. Thanks...
...King Arthur.“I don’t know what the hell Dryden is talking about half of the time,” says Hall, who is the musical director of the show. “Purcell’s music saves Dryden’s text from being bad.”As a semi-opera, the show’s main action is spoken, with interpolated musical tableaux called masques. The masques, which rarely advance the plot, are the instances where the show is at its most stylized, impressionistic, and ceremonial. There are pagan sacrifices, pastoral...
...novels and several stories in the New Yorker, is one of the great American food writers. This summer, working three jobs to make rent and reduced to herbivory, I would open up “Home Cooking,” Colwin’s masterpiece. My personal favorite text over the summer was a chapter analyzing the intricacies of creating the perfect fried chicken. Colwin expounds on her own time as a starving student in Manhattan and as I re-read the familiar pages, I had an epiphany. This was me: I had no money, I lived in a tiny...
...Those lines played to laughs, and a member of Giuliani's team fired back quickly Tuesday night, noting that Giuliani, unlike Biden, "rarely reads prepared speeches, and when he does he isn't prone to ripping off the text from others," a reference to stump speeches Biden gave in 1987 that lifted heavily from campaign talks by the British Labor Party leader at the time...