Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...it’s not always possible to put Democratic issues on the agenda. In 2004, foreign policy had a strong claim on voter attention. But if Democrats want to switch the focus of debate, they’re eventually going to have to try something that may feel unfamiliar: They’re going to have to take a stand.To understand what I’m getting at, imagine that the next Democratic presidential candidate calls for a single payer healthcare system. With easy money from the insurance industry, the Republicans would go after the Democrat with guns blazing...
...First Second will be uniquely dedicated to new works of graphical literature. (Full disclosure: First Second has hired me to edit a book project due in 2008.) Unlike previous ventures into the graphic novel medium by traditional publishers, which tended to be more like timid toe-dips into an unfamiliar pond, First Second has an ambitious and smart lineup of books scheduled for the next three years. Based on the first releases that appear simultaneously this week, if First Second doesn't do well financially, it will at least have published some extremely interesting and admirable books...
...public housing crisis in Chicago, or issues of immigration in Texas. If a Harvard student can organize a semester in Morocco with one application and a few clicks of the mouse, she should have similar ease in planning a course of study that will open her eyes to unfamiliar aspects of her own nation. Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Grays Hall...
...stage as characters from Shakespeare—whilst reading their unlearned lines directly off a sheet of paper. “Love and Cruelty” was both the theme and title of the show, which meant that TFs and professors had to interact in a rather uncomfortable and unfamiliar context. A scene from Richard III starring Professor Daniel G. Donoghue as Lady Anne playing opposite his female TF as Richard was made all the more entertaining as the duo stumbled through their poorly memorized lines. One particularly memorable exchange: Richard: “I am fit for one place...
...height of his creative trajectory, and encompasses desperate, fiery emotions not evident in many of his other compositions. Even before the 1984 release of the blockbuster film “Amadeus,” for which the “Requiem” serves as a musical centerpiece, the unfamiliar stylistic elements in the piece sparked the interest of musicologists. The choir will perform a completed iteration of the work by one such scholar, Harvard’s own Robinson Jr. Professor of Humanities Robert D. Levin ’68. The solos will be sung by soprano Teresa Wakim...