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...next concert cycle, performed on March 18 and 20, features Maurice Ravel’s “Sonata for Violin and Cello,” a piece about Ravel’s traumatizing experiences in World War I—which is of particular relevance in light of today??s war-obsessed social climate...
...first of the biopics, Finding Neverland, revels in the warm fantasy world of childhood, an inviting escape for today??s world-weary audiences. The film is fiercely emotional—Johnny Depp’s J.M. Barrie must face fatal disease, domestic discord, and a devastating death—but the action is safely removed from us, both temporally and geographically. The travails of an aristocrat in fin-de-siècle Britain may make for stellar entertainment, but they cannot engage the pressing issues of our contemporary culture...
...classic American tale of rags-to-riches. Comforting, perhaps, but somewhat trite in an age of wholesale corporate layoffs and a widening divide between bourgeois and blue-collar. If anything, the film offers a longing glimpse into a world we no longer possess: many have noted that in today??s record industry, Ray Charles would never have left the lounge-bar circuit...
Meanwhile, Summers—the winner in the first contest for the Harvard presidency—is battling in today??s contest for support from students and faculty...
While Summers usually serves as chair of Faculty meetings, he took the unusual step of asking Kirby to chair today??s meeting...