Word: thingness
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...theater scene as an actor, director, and playwright. When President Faust instituted the Task Force on the Arts in 2007, Pecci was asked to join as one of two College students. “It was a good way for me to express my dissatisfaction with the way things were operating here,” he says. Like Pecci, the members of the Task Force wanted art to be a “major part of the university, as opposed to being on the fringe.” Harvard, Pecci believes, has a duty as a wealthy institution...
...calling it “a visionary approach without exactly having a clear vision.” Smith may be deliberately withholding details to stimulate discussion among faculty and staff—or Smith himself may simply not have enough details to dispense, Duffy said.“One thing was clear: the Dean doesn’t exactly know himself what this ‘reshaping’ will mean,” said Duffy, who recalled a recent meeting after the town hall in which Smith was unable to provide clarifying answers to questions posed by department chairs.Professors...
...love Burgers. Period.” Ehrlich figured he might as well send in the entry, so he typed up the application and emailed it off. Four days later, b. good called to tell Ehrlich that he’d won.“Winning the burger thing might have been the highlight of my freshman year,” Ehrlich says. “I went there every. waking. second.” He swore to the Crimson reporter covering his burger bonanza that he’d eat 1,000 by the time he left Harvard.Four years later...
...you’ll never need to hold a wonderful, lovable book ever again. Perhaps for techies and Green People, this is a great leap forward for the absurd idea of “paperless paper,” but for all of us who venerate the real thing, the Kindle is just another injury in a long list. As I watched the instructional video on Amazon, they progressed through the gamut of its features in Steve Jobs-like fashion, and all was going well until they reached the part about the screen. The voice-over claimed that...
...HRDC’s production “The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark,” the cast and crew dare to tamper with the sacred texts of Shakespeare. “Hamlet is this worshipped thing. A lot of Shakespeare’s works are. It’s really quite sad, I think,” says director Jason R. Vartikar ’11. “The Tragedy of Hamlet”—not to be confused with the more traditional version being staged this weekend in Leverett House?...