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...first became superintendent. Livingston noted that despite Ketelhohn’s illness in the months before his death, he still enthusiastically participated in many of his favorite activities around Cabot. Livingston remembers Ketelhohn’s dedication to the annual Cabot House musical, which she directs. An avid visual artist and graduate of New York’s High School of Music and Art, Ketelhohn had long designed sets for the shows and insisted on taking part in this semester’s production of “Grease.” “Even though he was very...
Such experimental techniques were par for the course that year, as the atmosphere surrounding each new project fed students’ creative whims. Grants to the Houses by the Ford Foundation and others funded workshops in theater and visual arts...
...productions. The inconvenience of holding plays in dining halls and other unorthodox spaces, combined with the impossibility of producing every student production in Sanders, contributed to efforts to create not only a home for Harvard theater of the time, but also for generations to come. Harvard’s Visual Arts Committee supported the notion of a Harvard student theater and echoed the student council’s suggestion in recommending that “a theater program be inaugurated at Harvard and that it be housed in the proposed theater...
...even if you get a blank stare back, rest assured that the tyke is processing every change in the shape and rhythm of your mouth and face. Researchers, led by Whitney Weikum at the University of British Columbia, found that infants under 8 months old may rely on such visual cues to learn language, even using variations in facial expressions to distinguish one language from another...
...that differentiate them. With time, they learn to focus on the sounds, muscle movements and facial rhythms of only the languages to which they are exposed. It's all part of the way babies learn, by processing stimuli from a range of senses; even language, it seems, depends on visual triggers. So go ahead and coo at the next infant you encounter. Just be expressive about...