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Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
… want to say no—I mean, who gets to have a movie made about their undergraduate senior thesis?” Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17 … was setting up his camera, to call her over for a close-up of the flowery, ’60s-throwback ankle boots she was wearing. … in the Grass” wafted down from speakers overhead, part of the Pusey Library’s “Harvard 1968” exhibit, which …
The Wizard of Backstage
… Last November, when the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) produced the … Center's main stage, director Jay Scheib made liberal use of new electronic media. Two video-camera operators roamed … director, Peyton Sherwood '04, explains that being "TD" of a mainstage show is "one of the biggest theater jobs. For …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Science of Sex
… The “Sins of the Mother,” trumpets a headline in the journal Science , warning of a “maternal assault” against children. Another headline … of culture, ideology, empirical fact, and pure luck give rise to these assumptions. The GenderSci Lab now meets in …
Issue: November-December 2019
Realities of Empire
… Empires fascinate. Not only scholars, but writers of fiction, geographers, sociologists, videogame and movie producers. We historians ask why and how they are they formed: by conquest, surely, though sometimes … the theory in Jennifer Pitts’s 2005, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France , 2005.) …
Issue: May-June 2022
Godmothers of The Namesake
… Mira Nair ’79 met Sooni Taraporevala ’79 in the Lowell House dining room in the fall of 1976. The two women, both of Indian descent, became friends and, nine years later, …
Issue: March-April 2007
Victorian Sound, Victorian Silence
… factories, roaring steam engines, and great, groaning machines, the Industrial Revolution made quite a racket. Surrounded by … Dickens and George Eliot to consider the possibilities of sound and silence as powerful literary symbols for …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Art of the Possible
… Elements of a system of international criminal justice abound on the contemporary world stage. Radovan Karadzic, the former …
Issue: May-June 2012
The College's Course of Study
… The College's Course of Study Harvard undergraduates' course … the concentration requirements, which for honors work had risen in some departments to as many as half of the 32 … concentration requirements to pile up" as subdisciplines arise. "But the other part of our mission is to be critical," …
"The Myth of Psychiatric Scientism"
… empirical science that studies brain functioning, or a form of humanism that studies the inner workings of the mind in its broad social and cultural context? …
Issue: July-August 2006
The Bits the Bible Left Out
… The lecture had a playful, topical title—“Did Early … that night, as rain fell in sheets outside and a room full of students and scholars listened, were ancient and deeply … illuminated manuscript shows Mary Magdalene announcing the risen Christ to other disciples. Illustration courtesy of …
Issue: November-December 2018
A World of Food
… The best “Frito pie” begins with only the finest local ingredients: a packet of corn chips. Chef Amanda Escamilla, of Tex Mex Eats, slits … and good food.” Winter markets appear to be on the rise. In Massachusetts, the move to stretch the locally …
Issue: January-February 2015
Taking Care of Junior Professors
… Having identified financial and other pressures on untenured professors, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) … he noted that the cost of housing in Greater Boston had risen far faster than in most other areas in the three years …
Being "of Harvard"
… One year after the release of The Women's Guide to Harvard comes The Black … "Black 'legacies'" among newly admitted students; and the rise of minority organizations, with their own new …
Issue: May-June 2003
The Glory of Antiques
… Robert I. Owens ’68 and his wife, Elizabeth, lived with their children in the grand 1837 Greek Revival row house … in it. “The kids rode their tricycles across the open floor of the double living room,” he says with a smile. “They … At Robert Mussey Associates, the industrial space comprises a fully equipped series of conservation “laboratories” …
Issue: September-October 2005
“The Promise of This New Presidency”
… Claudine Gay spent part of the last day of summer and the first day of the fall … black colleges and universities). But then there was a surprise: as the president’s party entered, Veronica Leahy ’23 …