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...thought the first 10-12 minutes, they carried the play,” Donato said. “Their speed put us back on our heels but I thought the last six to seven minutes of the first period we had some great chances and Muse came...
...comedy—and in each of these, it succeeds. But a truly great film would take its cue from what made Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s series so great—the mind-bending experience of witnessing Sherlock Holmes rewrite the story the audience thought they understood into an entirely new narrative. For now, though, viewers will have to wait for the inevitable sequel to see the great Sherlock Holmes solve an actual case...
...President Drew Faust’s inauguration in 2007. O’Connor had dreamed of organizing an event of bluegrass music since he founded HCAMA with banjo player Clayton D. Miller ’10 that same year. “We built on jam sessions and thought we should try to represent the style of indigenous music on campus more,” O’Connor says...
...break down. The thrill of the Nabokovian sentence lies in its intense compression, that hyper-compacted poetry of the apposite adjective or unexpected metaphor that separates it from the more loosely polemical Russian literary tradition. It’s why Nabokov adored Tolstoy’s taut prose and thought Dostoevsky a hack. In “Laura” this compression unravels—degenerating near the end into mere personal notes (“invent tradename, e.g. cephalopium”) and haphazard lists (drawing linkages between self-dissolution and Buddhism...
Regardless of how institutions choose to attract applicants, they must make the preservation of the introspective experience a priority. When applying to college requires as much thought as claiming a “Free trip to the Bahamas for two!” both universities and applicants suffer...