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...from services, folded bulletins and dried palms in hand. At just about the same time in Sever 113, a small audience gathered before Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 to hear a different sort of sermon. As he began his keynote address for the “F-Word?? conference, a student-run event that sought to explore, complicate, and validate an f-word??feminism—McCarthy reflected on the occasion. “I was raised in a Catholic home where we went to church every week… so this is kind...
...absurd and carefully crafted—the trademark of any Python fare. Yet “Spamalot” is still a difficult show to sell to college students, who—though they might be able to recite lines from “Grail” word for word??likely lack the princely sums or insider connections required to get tickets to a show that sold out months ago. Given such barriers, the question of why Harvard audiences should even care about the musical requires an answer that speaks to something the show itself. The most obvious...
...three words, describe the ideal president of Harvard. JR: [Long pause.] I would say: visionary, broadly-educated—if I can count that as one word??and [pause] responsive. FM: And three words to describe President Summers? JR: Oh, that’s kind of mean. FM: Fair enough. I’ll ask another mean one. What is most annoying about President Summers? JR: I suppose it’s a certain impatience he has that’s most annoying. But I don’t think that’s at the heart...
...held up so high in itself is a sellout,” he said. Kennedy, who is working on a book about movements against minorities perceived to have lost their roots, is the bestselling author of the controversial books “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word?? and “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption.” He also cited some examples of figures who have been labeled as sellouts—such as Christopher Darden, an African-American prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, Clarence Thomas, Malcolm X, Martin Luther...
Community—here, House community—is not, I now appreciate, a sexy word??it conjures up unsavory images of sweaty Samoans smothering one another in their bosoms. And it’s an especially difficult concept to argue for because most Americans haven’t a clue as to what I’m talking about and why it’d actually be desirable. Perhaps this analogy then: a big final club, with bigger grounds, better views, and better people. Twelve Harvard Houses, mildly chummy with each other but reasonably competitive too; places...