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...must-not be-named that extended over the festivities. As our very own Dumbledore said, “We meet now in the shadow of the terrible and tragic events of September 11th—And so, in our present struggle, we do our part, we carry that torch [of truth]—We will prevail in this struggle...
Almost every art has its technology. Painting is an ancient mud process. Welded-steel sculpture required the invention of the welding torch. Janet Cardiff's breakthrough work required--the Walkman. Ten years ago, while thinking about a new artwork, she was walking through a cemetery in the Canadian town of Banff, reading into a tape recorder the names she found on old gravestones. At one point, she rewound the tape, then replayed it to find where she had left off. That is how she first had the disorienting experience of hearing herself describe a walk while she was still...
When A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, was formally installed as Harvard’s 22nd president, undergraduates were an integral part of the festivities. The College band and a 160-member chorus performed as 13,000 spectators looked on in the Old Yard. Several hours after the ceremony, torch-bearing students wearing red sashes marched en masse from the Yard to the stadium, which also radiated a bold, crimson hue—with red Japanese lanterns forming a glowing “H” along the goalposts. Students marched twice around the track and cheered...
...guest speakers, and teamed up with WordsWorth books to host author readings. Lampke and White ran the Brattle for 15 years but this year they decided that they wanted to concentrate on their film festivals and that it was time to move on. Earlier this year they passed the torch into the capable hands of Ned Hinkle and Ivy Moylan, the new co-directors who plan to continue where Lampke and White left...
...title appropriately—a bluesy, evocative song that sounds conjures the best bits of introspective Sheryl Crow. The glowering “Gucci” pays homage to the ominous blues of triphop, while “Getting Out of It” is a jazzy torch song for anyone on the run from a relationship. “Sunday Kickaround” celebrates the relief of a pickup football game as a respite from the demands of life, conveyed through edgy Eastern-flecked music which goes straight to the stomach, finally resolving itself with “Mastercontrol...