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...whom he first met in 1948, of “making up facts,” calling the linguist a “Holocaust denier, a denier of history, a denier of reality and the truth.” Chomsky “hates America, hates Israel [and], hates western democracy,” he said. Dershowitz’s event was a response to the Chomsky speech, itself part of the “Nakba 101” week that was organized by the Harvard Nakba Committee. Dershowitz said he asked to debate Chomsky, but the committee cited...
...directed Lloyd-Bollard in one of her first shows. “She has been a huge inspiration for me,” Lloyd-Bollard says of her friend. Recently, the pair worked together on 2006’s “The Playboy of the Western World.” In the past four years, Lloyd-Bollard has risen in the ranks of the Harvard theater community. Her most recent work was directing this month’s production of “Blasted” at the American Repertory Theatre (ART). The play, filled with moments of sexualized...
...Full House,” Taxin guarantees that the show will be quality entertainment. “This is at the heart of where Shakespeare drew from,” he says. “Roman satire is really the heart of what we consider to be Western theater.” This pivotal piece was not an easy one to adapt for the Harvard audience. The HCC members translated the play from the Latin themselves. Taxin, a Classics concentrator, found the main problem to be “establishing consistency between the translations of different people...
...justice to convey, even if it is broad, unfocused, and—like the rest of the book—all over the place.The chapter “Attila the Hun’s Greatest Speech,” effectively combines famous quotes from the speeches of the modern Western canon into a monologue that critiques the violence of our heroic leaders. “Four score and seven weeks ago, we came into this land, killing and raping everything we could get our hands on,” the Hun states. “But maybe you should...
...spent with Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble as one of her most influential experiences.“Everyone was so friendly and so interested in what you have to say as a musician, and so passionate about bringing different kinds of music together—celebrating the western traditions versus the eastern traditions,” she says. “And this performance was one of the most inspiring musical experiences I’ve ever had.”But in spite of all her stellar achievements, Yu believes that the greatest pleasure in music...