Word: unfamiliar
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...very serious. It’s interesting to see how people [respond].” Whether one has seen Bernstein’s famed original or not, the Cabot House production of “West Side Story” hopes to strike a chord with its audience. Mostly unfamiliar with the show before rehearsals began, Brondfield has grown to be a “fan of [the music],” and hopes the audience will feel the same way. —Staff writer Jessica A. Berger can be reached at jaberger@fas.harvard.edu...
...give Marx a pat on the head and move on. The second option is selective reading. In fact, many professors expect that their students will not do all the required reading. But what to cut? Undergrads are rarely in a position to weigh the merits of unfamiliar texts. One text may provide background for another, or offer an important critique, or update an outdated argument. If we cut one, we might as well cut the other. Professors who overwhelm their students with copious amounts of reading are doing them a disservice. Balancing social and extracurricular commitments with a four...
...readers unfamiliar with the media in general or The Crimson in particular, the stance of the editorial board may have tainted our news coverage of Summers’ resignation and the events which led up to it. It did not help this perception that other newspapers carried articles or opinion pieces that stated that Summers had the support of “the student newspaper...
Given that much of society is largely unfamiliar with many of the challenges that transgendered individuals face, Harvard’s decision to amend its University-wide non-discrimination policy to protect “gender identity” is a bold and highly commendable step. Since the formation of the Transgender Task Force (TTF) in 1997, the group of students, staff, faculty, and alumni who advocate on behalf of issues of gender identity has pushed for such an inclusion in the University-wide non-discrimination code. On Tuesday, the University’s general counsel told the TTF that...
...brain surgery on a teenage boy, a spelling champion, in fact. The boy was awake during the procedure and the doctors tried to engage him in conversation to chart his progress. Painfully shy, the boy hesitated to speak about baseball and girls, two topics with which he was obviously unfamiliar, but when he mentioned that he was a speller and the doctors challenged him with obscure medical terms, he lit up and even cracked jokes in the operating room. Scenarios like this only happen on television, but the spelling, for teens like him, is very real.A few days later...