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… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … mid April). Harvardwood On March 13 , our New York chapter offers an evening of inspired jazz through the Harvardwood …
Issue: March-April 2013
A Glass Menagerie
… Legend has it that on an ocean voyage to the United States in 1853, Bohemian glassmaker Leopold Blaschka began making drawings of animals the crew fished out of the sea. The nineteenth century was a time of …
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“Your Job Is to Disturb the Universe”
… Former secretary of state John Kerry lingered casually in John F. Kennedy … chatting with colleagues and admirers, before ascending the stage to deliver this year’s Commencement address to … up the corruption” in Washington. It’s the long-term crises, Kerry said, that make him more afraid: “While we are …
Off the Shelf
… Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, by Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. … programs and other measures to defuse such crises, which often seem pervasive. Pirating and Publishing: …
Issue: January-February 2021
A New Look at Harvard Mountaineer Bradford Washburn
… (who died in 2007), was widely known for his daring ascents of America's most challenging mountains, for his stunning aerial photography of mountain terrain, and for his leadership of what became the Museum of Science in Boston. A new biography of …
Grow Up!
… Writing in the Harvard Monthly in 1894, philosophy professor George … A.B. 1886, tried to account for the peculiar appeal of athletics in institutions of higher learning. The usual …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Mammalian Life Span
… Pellegrino University Professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson has written with increasing urgency about mankind’s disruption of the biosphere, and the heedless extinction of species. He … survive. Or not. Some of the variants of the genes, having arisen by mutation or forming new combinations, might even …
Issue: March-April 2016
Behind the Scenes: Writing about Alexander Rehding’s interstellar reach
… When I first arrived at Harvard Magazine , the other editors provided me with a packet of story ideas. They hoped to spare me from wandering … excellent. One colleague suggested an article on Peabody professor of music Alex Rehding, former chair of the Harvard …
“Beyond Lobsters and Lighthouses”
… Forget lounging on the beach, and suit up instead to explore Portland, Maine, … colder—admits longtime resident John Robinson ’90, author of A Concise History of Portland, Maine (2008), but the arts … and performances spotlight the city’s wide-ranging enterprisers. But increasingly, First Friday also extends beyond …
Issue: January-February 2019
“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”
… The Peabody Essex Museum’s newest exhibit opens with a white … by Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first female creative director of Dior. Debuting in the spring 2017 collection, it amplified the power of #MeToo—and currently retails for $860. Jeanne Lanvin's …
Issue: January-February 2021
When Government Was Good
… When the one-half of American s who actually vote go to the polls this November, included in the process will be a generation of post-baby-boom citizens who've been raised under a …
“All Climate Change Is Local”
… Within the United States, coastal areas host the densest … the beginning, say planners at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), who expect climate change to … housing, transportation, public services, and economies” of coastal communities, according to a newsletter from the …
Harvard Square Meals—and Beyond
… Commencement Week, alumni reunions, or just to check out the old stomping grounds? Here’s a select list of cafés and restaurants favored by Harvard Magazine staffers offering a diversity of settings and flavors. The genial …
Issue: May-June 2024
Solzhenitsyn Flays the West
… In 1974, the Soviet Union deported dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Litt.D. ’78, author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan … The Tercentenary Theatre audience was in for a rude surprise. "The Exhausted West," delivered in Russian with …