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...Eight professors and former administrators who spoke with The Crimson, however, say they have heard claims that the new administration has taken on a “corporate” tone...
...this past weekend at the recently completed Harvard Dance Center (HDC), and its performances were as sleek and modern as the new venue. The opening dance, “Not Fire, Not Ice” choreographed by graduate student Marita L. Sheldon, set the evening’s tone. Five black-clad dancers took to the dimly lit stage and cycled through poses eerily suggestive of death throes as a solemn voice boomed lines from Robert Frost’s apocalyptic poem “Fire and Ice”. Odd mechanical sound effects and a metronomic beating heart underscored...
...play resembles an opera re-imagined by a Beat poet: sung and spoken dialogue alternates, often bleeding into each other and usually backed by the cacophonous melodies of a band on one side of the stage. Virtually each line is delivered with breathtaking intensity, which contributes to the tone but occasionally leads to some unintentionally amusing moments, as when Eurydice dramatically sings about the mug of pens on her writing desk. Most of the time, however, they’re singing about love, death, Hell, and obsession, so a certain excessiveness is appropriate. The actors throw themselves wholeheartedly into their...
...some people, learning about the nonfictional Opus Dei, will think, Well, it's not that bad. 2) Reach out for allies: "This film offends all Catholics, not just Opus Dei. It says the entire church is a big lie." 3) Engage only in measured discourse. Says Mora: "Any aggressive tone would have played into the marketing of the film...
...Brendan Hodge’s “Getting Around” (comment, Apr. 14). I grant you that sarcasm is essentially the second language of all Harvard students, but Hodge unfortunately does not understand the line between being funny and playful, and being obnoxious. Besides the general condescending tone, the simple fact of the matter is that most people at Harvard do walk most of the time (while at school anyway); if Hodge has evidence to the contrary, I’d be fascinated to see it. Furthermore, Hodge makes factual errors in his description of running. He states...