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...poignancy, his turmoil, angst, and overwhelmed loneliness. Likewise, Michal Bat Sheva Rand’s depiction of Malli seems an easy embodiment of hearty womanhood. In this fable-esque movie, however, the characters do naturally tend towards archetypes. While this effectively spreads the film’s overarching religious themes??forgiveness and faith—it prevents the audience from wholly identifying with the two-dimensional Orthodox characters. The director’s blatant stereotyping of the “bad” non-Orthodox guests and the “good” Jewish Basangas seems over...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ushpizin | 11/11/2005 | See Source »

...Commencement address, University President Lawrence H. Summers acknowledged the “contradictory themes?? driving the then-fledgling Harvard College Curricular Review. He pointed to a fundamental tension between the desire to give students “greater flexibility in choosing courses” and the goal of providing them with foundational knowledge in topics such as history, literature, and science...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEWS ANALYSIS: GenEd Report Reveals Tensions | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

...handle, as the truth behind A’s nostalgic ramblings during the first act becomes apparent. As the characters’ tongues become sharper (the second act largely consists of C asking the other two women to account for why they are so bitter), so do the themes?? and the play subtly builds into a warning that one can never truly get beyond past mistakes, except in death...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Dark Humor Disturbs | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...been fascinated by stamps depicting black subjects since I was a child,” he said. “When I saw a very old stamp featuring George Washington Carver, I began to collect stamps with black themes??which were very rare at the time...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Joins Postal Service Stamp Committee | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...nearly hour-long speech was in many ways familiar from stump speeches he delivered over the past year in a heated primary campaign. But in an effort to bring new life to his White House bid, Kerry also incorporated new themes??including, early in his speech, a call to arms for the cause of women’s rights—and responded in unusually blunt fashion to criticisms of his policies and style that have accumulated over the course...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker and Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Ready To Serve | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

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