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Davidson ends his book with an ominous image: While Aeschines is prosecuting Timarchus in 346 BCE for practicing homosexual prostitution in his youth??a warning sign in Athens of tyranny—he portrays an “anti-Athens” of hollow zones and derelict buildings that “lurks still in the city’s crevices” amidst “unbridled appetites and animal passions”—waiting “like the abysmal Charybdis to swallow Athens down.” It’s still eerie...
...craggy and uncompromisingly melodic. Not unlike the generation of grunge bands it inspired, it never seemed meant to last. Well-beloved but critically understated in general, the band was, for a time, the middle-child of indie rock’s late-eighties inception; robbed both of Sonic Youth??s extended-career veneration and the Pixies’ cult-pop status, Dinosaur Jr. was expected to produce a single masterpiece—namely 1987’s “You’re Living All Over Me,”—and languish into...
...Lanka’s best interest not to pretend that ethnic violence on both sides did not occur. A sustainable peace cannot include any demonization of the Tamils, whether it is direct or indirect through the continued framing of the Tigers—who are heroes to many Tamil youth??as the source of all evil on the island...
...Harvard women’s Squash team capped off a successful season this weekend with a strong showing at the CSA Individual Championships held at Williams College. Six Crimson players represented Harvard in the Ramsay Cup, which selects the top 32 players nationwide. Despite its youth??the Crimson was represented by two juniors, two sophomores, and two freshman—four out of the six advanced to the round of 16, more than any other school. Harvard No.1 Freshman Nirasha Guruge, seeded seventh, had a strong showing in her first singles appearance in the Ramsay Cup, advancing...
...understanding of the play’s place in the modern world but also a specific idea about what seems its greatest contribution to modernity. Discussing “Romeo and Juliet,” Garber argues that it is what she calls “The Untimeliness of Youth?? that preserves its popularity. “It is the brevity and compression of their story, the impressionistic sense that their lives, and not only the play that bears their names, constitute a ‘two-hours’ traffic,’ that has made this...