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Brian S. Stern '96, who wrote on Mark Twain, said a Science Center computer destroyed a day's worth of his work on Wednesday...
Even if you think that you've never seen a Winslow Homer painting, you're probably wrong. Homer's paintings have graced the covers of many editions of Mark Twain and Louisa May Alcott novels, and almost every anthology of American literature. Or you might have seen his "Snap the Whip" in the commemorative stamp series of famous American artists. In fact, Homer is probably the most widely kown American painter, exploring American life and culture over his long career, which began after the Civil War and continued until his death...
What do Michelangelo's rendering of David, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a rape survivor's support group and the lyrics of Alanis Morrissette all have in common...
...which a group of Hispanics and a lone black man spar with each other by turning up their radios to louder, increasingly confrontational volumes. The scene challenges the old cliche that music is the universal language. Often, in fact, it is an expression of what divides us--Shania Twain and Tupac Shakur don't share much of a crossover audience. It's therefore a delight to encounter two engaging, offbeat new rap groups, the Japanese-American duo Cibo Matto and the Haitian-American trio the Fugees. Neither makes overtly integrationist music--no hip-hop covers of We Shall Overcome...
...their lives. Parodying the Thurber memoir, The Years with Ross, they told their father that he should call his effort The Years with Thurber. The writing radiates the author's affection for his subject and a poignant willingness to take up the cudgels against any claim that Twain was Thurber's superior...