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...Pilbeam administered a decanal snowjob to the Party Fund. Fun at Harvard began in the eighteenth century, after Increase Mather left for New Haven. It enjoyed its heyday in the nineteenth century, when undergraduates engaged in activities like literary discussions, the founding of Greek letter fraternities, manifest destiny, musical theater, and binge drinking. The founding of Radcliffe College in the late nineteenth century greatly increased the opportunities for fun on campus but greatly decreased the amount of fun on campus, due to what College physicians described as “awkward-ass Harvard kids.” Soon, Harvard attracted...
...will reopen under a new name and welcome more occupants next month, drawing the curtain on more than two years of renovations. Recently dubbed the New College Theatre, the venue will host some of the 40 to 60 productions Harvard undergraduates organize each year. The theater will remain home to its traditional residents, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT), the Harvard Krokodiloes, and the Radcliffe Pitches, but also will contain rehearsal space for other performance groups. “Harvard has not had a new theater dedicated exclusively to the College in almost 50 years,” said Jack Megan...
...eulogize fan Elvis Presley, began to develop a following with TV broadcasts that for a time reached more parts of the globe than any other religious show and claimed 20million viewers. Among the hallmarks of his 5,400-seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of Tomorrow, a onetime movie theater near Akron, Ohio: a 100-ft.-long (about 30 m) cross, lit up with thousands of red, white and blue bulbs. His goal? Sticking to "the simple Gospel," not Beltway affairs. "If Jesus were preaching today," said Humbard, "he would never get into politics...
...shots of natural vistas in the film are breathtaking, heightening the rawness and cruelty of nature. The beautiful images are perfectly captured by the crisp, wandering guitar chords of Eddie Vedder, who provides the majority of the film’s music. His strained voice echoes heartily around the theater as if he were the landscape itself, calling out to the characters. The temporal structure of the film adds to the narrative of the story, unveiling key details when they’re needed. Flashbacks, combined with the occasional voice-over by Jena Malone, who plays McCandless’ younger...
...short form. But he also speculates that its depiction of political clashes, the opium war, and the 1989 student massacre at Tiananmen Square made it too controversial for the Chinese government’s approval. Unlike Wang, Riedl is a first-time documentary director. Riedl, who worked in theater and dramatic film before delving into the genre with “The Man Who Saved a Million Brains,” says she “always had a great love of storytelling...the creation of a world beyond what you know.” She soon came to favor...