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...Sometimes, though, if we are honest with ourselves, we may have the fortitude to resist the seemingly inevitable inertia ushering us towards unqualified despair. A.E. Housman found such a vision in his timeless “To an Athlete Dying Young,” when he bids a deceased youth farewell with the heartening words, “Now you will not swell the rout / Of lads that wore their honours out / Runners whom renown outran / And the name died before the man.” By claiming Aaliyah after a mere 22 years on earth, death may have...
...American Studies. No courses focus on the comprehensive history of Asian Americans, Latinos, or Native Americans. The lack of any cohesive Native American Studies curriculum is particularly disturbing since the 1650 Charter of Harvard College established the College for “the education of the English and Indian youth of this Country...
Watson chronicles virtually every meeting with Christa from June 1953 to December 1955. His description of the 17-year-old Christa as a “full-bodied woman, no longer the gangly child of earlier memories” betrays his fascination with nubile youth. Watson reports that “her face and voice made butterflies rumble through [his] stomach,” but such attempts at poetic description usually fall short. Their formal relationship begins in August 1954: “After a long walk down and back the country road beside their house, we started kissing...
...main feature of the nearly two-hour long service was the sermon delivered by the Rev. Theodore Maynard ’00, the director of youth ministries at the Charles Street A.M.E. Church in Boston. Maynard based his message on the gospel story of a young girl whom Jesus raises from the dead...
...morbidity and somberness" creeps into his later work, says De Salvo. Though his paintings preserve the beautiful youth of Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli, in his self-portraits Warhol recorded his own hollow eyes, leathery skin and flagrantly artificial hair. De Salvo sees the preoccupations of someone growing older. She admits, though, that he feared death and was terrified of going back into the hospital, having been seriously injured in 1968 when he was shot by an unbalanced feminist...