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...through the night.I hope my inference is clear. The A’s go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They...
...elsewhere; any witch-hunt goes on in your own soul. So the question is: What should Harvard oppose in order to know itself better? For me, the beginning of an answer has emerged from a careful study of some of the stationery in my office. The community-defining text for today is the single word, Veritas: Truth.What is the opposite of Truth? In the first place, Truth opposes Error. A university with the motto Veritas should counter wrongness and contemn it if it turns out to be willful. Why should a judge, rather than a university, be the first...
...millions from Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations. Great authors make allusions. Ms. Austen did not lift the very language of Anne Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” to write her “Northanger Abbey.” She made allusions to that text and to its gothic conventions. Shakespeare’s texts play with ancient myth and the works of Ovid, but Shakespeare took those ideas and constructions much further. It takes knowledge to allude, and invention to create, but it takes no imagination whatsoever to plagiarize and copy. This case just...
...professional ensemble that specializes in performing Baroque and early Classical music. To execute this elaborate undertaking, 16 student soloists will deliver the various arias and recitatives throughout the show. “The Messiah,” often performed in recognition and celebration of the Christmas season, actually incorporates text from both the Old and New Testament. As one of the few well-known choral pieces sung in English, its powerful lyrics—juxtaposed with its deeply emotional music—are not only powerful but also accessible for an English-speaking audience. So take your seats and watch...
...Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell, of From Hell fame, continues the author's recent interest in alternate forms of autobiography (see Alec: How to Be an Artist.) A bold, Pirandellian book, Fate is structured like a detective story, but the missing character is the author himself. Fusing text, traditional comic pages, gag strips, and photos, the book's form reflects its fractured content as it swings from detective pastiche to domestic anecdotes to meditations on the role of art. Through it all, Campbell maintains a sharp eye, strong wit and stimulating intelligence. Though not entirely coherent, Campbell...