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The Art of the Quilt
… In the summer of 1971, visitors to the Whitney Museum of … look at, and say, ‘That’s pretty nice.’ ” … Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls … Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls … 44655 … Quilts are …
Issue: May-June 2014
Events of the Week
… The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, … Neil L. Rudenstine and Robert E. Rubin '60, chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup Inc. and former U.S. …
Echoes of the Central Valley
… Young fiction writers are often encouraged to “write what you know.” That often yields stories that seem overly autobiographical, yet juiced by primary experience. The work is especially moving when the writer is talented …
Issue: May-June 2011
Business for the Other Billions
… State—a two-hour drive, when roads are passable, northeast of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous … “It’s crazy.” But despite its ambitions, their modest enterprise, Tomato Jos ( www.tomatojos.net ), is not crazy. Nor …
Issue: September-October 2015
The Mindfulness Chronicles
… Harvard, Ellen Langer and her colleagues piled two groups of men in their seventies and eighties into vans, drove them two hours … street to incapacitation.” What she found, however, surprised even her own team of researchers. Before and after the …
Issue: September-October 2010
The Applied Wisdom of the Heartland
… In their very origins, public institutions like the University of Michigan (UM), and their land-grant cousins, are perhaps … as a first responder,” addressing priorities as they arise on the ground. In that context, he said, bringing the …
The Language of Movement
… I n the finale of the Netflix series Living with Yourself, Paul … gets into a fight with himself—or, rather, with a clone of himself. That new-and-improved version has spent the … creators turned to Kuperman Brothers—the eponymous enterprise of Rick ’11 and Jeff: choreographers and directors with …
Issue: January-February 2020
On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Emergency
… medicine—caring for climbers with altitude sickness in the Himalayas or victims of the tsunami disaster in Japan— Stuart Harris is a … those on the front lines as the number of coronavirus cases rises over the coming days and weeks. On Monday, the same …
Stories of the Voiceless
… The initiative for the science of the human past was a dream made possible when, in 2002, Goelet professor of medieval history Michael McCormick won a $1.5 …
Issue: July-August 2009
Keeping the Vibes
… How do you play a broken record? “Take a picture of it,” says audio engineer David Ackerman, who heads the Audio Preservation Services (APS) unit in the Loeb Music … spending this money to preserve?’ ” That question doesn’t arise with regard to the rare, obscure, and often …
Issue: May-June 2007
Yesterday’s News
… Mount Auburn Street for use as regular dormitories. (Today they are parts of Adams House, now in its final stages of renewal.) 1925 An Overseers Committee recommends the …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Kindness of a City
… The weekend before the Boston Marathon the air in the city … in tow, ready to run in the most famous and respected of all marathon courses. But this isn’t just about the … is really a 26.2-mile-long block-party filled with hundreds of thousands of spectators, young and old alike, simply out …
Of Dumplings, Bok Choy, and the Politics of Emoji
… about upcoming dinner plans. Lee sent over a picture of dumplings, and Lu went to her iPhone’s emoji keyboard to … digital icon. None existed. For most people, this kind of omission would inspire minor annoyance but little, if … activist,” co-founder of Emojination, and vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee—a group that helps decide …
The Saga of a Great Headline
… Two mornings after the fact, the Crimson 's headline made the 1968 match-up the … only one little word, had brilliantly captured the essence of the Harvard football team's legendary comeback (16 points … headline in Crimson history, its author surely spoken of reverently through the generations, perhaps even honored …
Off the Shelf
… The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health, by Ellen J. Langer, professor of psychology (Ballantine, $28). The author … of the problems that concern Michèle Lamont in terms of crises afflicting liberal democracy, a professor of law and …
Issue: September-October 2023