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Shakespeare, Romans, gruesome violence??what more could you ask for? Starting today, “Titus Andronicus” will be performed at the Loeb Experimental Theatre from Dec. 7-15. The Roving Reporter waded through blood, guts, and amputated limbs to get the inside story on the production. Jack E. Fishburn ’08 RR: Who do you play in “Titus Andronicus”?JF: I play Titus.RR: Great. What’s his story?JF: He is a Roman general who is reaching retirement, having successfully led Rome’s armies...
...admire the filmmakers for telling a story that attempts to avoid the easy laughs or tears that most modern-day cinematic romances effect. “Book Club” brings together an impressive roster of actresses, including Maria Bello (“A History of Violence??), Emily Blunt (“The Devil Wears Prada”) and Amy Brenneman (TV’s “Private Practice”). Male counterparts like Hugh Dancy (“Evening”) and Jimmy Smits (“Cane”) are equally impressive, even though their...
...chief lesson Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Class of 1861, took from his time fighting in the Civil War, according to Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, is that “certitude leads to violence??—that a dogmatic confidence in one’s beliefs and an unwillingness to compromise begets conflict and war. If Holmes, a former Harvard professor, were to return to Cambridge today and look to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), he would be disappointed to see that certitude has wracked this institution he loved so dearly, leading to four...
...always thought that Southerners made natural writers because of the need to explain themselves. How else does one cope with so many contradictions—between geniality and racism, piety and violence??than by organizing thoughts on a page...
...Relationship tensions distinct from sex, too, can play a part in reports of sexual violence??an impulse to punish someone for some grievance, for instance. When alcohol is involved—as it is in many reported acts of sexual violence??both involved parties may be unable to draw appropriate lines. In those situations, the “Yes, keep going” in the middle of the night, for instance, may be transformed into feelings of violation. These situations constitute bad sexual decision-making, not necessarily acts of sexual assault...