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...memoir: events are filtered through the author's memory, and then they're fuzzed even further by the inherently impressionistic nature of any literary medium. Short of the unexpected appearance of a Recording Angel, there isn't much a memoirist can do to pull aside that two-ply veil. But before we get lost in an epistemological fog, let's not forget that those distortions must be kept separate from the wilful deceptions of an author who's giving in to ulterior motives. Some falsehood comes with the territory of the memoirist; others must be deliberately imported into...
Administrators at Harvard Business School (HBS) chose yesterday to remove the veil over student transcripts, despite widespread opposition to the move among the school’s student body...
...surprising that the students’ work is highly conceptual.Hannah B. Merriman, a second year graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, sits on the floor surrounded by a tangled heap of fabric and thread. She lifts an elaborate metal structure covered in a veil of canvas, and puts it on her head. Merriman is creating performance art—a multi-piece costume that she will wear while walking through a labyrinth spray-painted on the Divinity School parking lot. The complex design will prevent her from seeing where she is going or moving too fast, she explains...
...excess of $100,000. In contrast, our negotiations with artists are made possible by a $30,000 allocation from the Undergraduate Council (UC). This sum is one half to one third of artist fees and total production costs can easily exceed six figures. Also, to pull back the veil of secrecy, here’s a picture of how much artists charge: Wyclef asks $45,000; Bob Dylan, $105,000; The Killers, $150,000-plus; Kanye West, $150,000-plus. To get bigger names, we would need to charge higher ticket prices ($30 or more), and in the past...
...forward and ask for frequent repetitions to understand Hollinghurst’s Oxonian accent and quiet, rapid delivery.His opinion of my dubious comprehension, as well as his passion for precision and le mot juste, quickly becomes apparent. After describing his writing process as “putting on the veil,” Hollinghurst explains that he does not literally wear a veil, but only metaphorically distances himself from the surrounding world. The AIDS crisis “humanized” gay men, he says later–adding that he meant “humanizing for those who hadn?...