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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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 One text may provide background for another, or offer an important critique, or update an outdated argument.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...