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Renegade Tastemakers
… This winter , an exhibit of contemporary paintings in the basement of Davis Square’s Somerville Theatre features … landscapes, waterfalls mysteriously spring up, mountains arise from flat surfaces, and trees in a natural forest march …
Issue: January-February 2018
How to Portray Ghana
… magazine’s issue 92, titled “How to Write about Africa.” The author, Binyavanga Wainaina, laid out a comprehensive list of what to portray and what not to portray. For instance, … at all the schools we visited. Ghana pleasantly surprised us in its characteristically relaxed way. We did not …
The Classes
… post.harvard Alumni Login username and password to complete the registration process.) No account is required to submit … note or to submit an obituary . For questions regarding the class notes and obituaries on our website, please e-mail … … Class notes and obituaries for July-August 2015 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: July-August 2015
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
… John Ruskin is hardly a household name, but the English artist, art critic, and social theorist was … intellectuals who followed. He was “the foremost polemicist of the Victorian Age,” notes one label in Houghton Library’s … coincided with the Darwinian revolution in science and the rise of socialism, most notably in the writings of Marx and …
Cambridge 02138
… Pipeline Although Michael McElroy’s recent article, “Forum: The Keystone XL Pipeline” (November-December 2013, page 37) … carefully addresses the pipeline issue, especially in terms of carbon dioxide and climate change, it neglects to … to any increase contributing to the fatal 2˚C temperature rise. In final analysis, however, whatever the president …
Issue: January-February 2014
Off the Shelf
… by Meredith Mason Brown ’61, J.D. ’65 (Indiana, $30). The author, a biographer of Daniel Boone, does “better in history when it becomes … World War II through 20 revealing objects. A History of the Present Illness, by Louise Aronson, M.D. ’92 …
Issue: May-June 2013
Multiple Wives, Substandard Lives
… In TV shows like Big Love and the documentary Sister Wives, polygyny--the practice of a man marrying multiple women--looks like a pretty good … time evenly among his wives, who occasionally feel jealous of each other. And in the United States, where plural …
Issue: March-April 2011
The Classes
… post.harvard Alumni Login username and password to complete the registration process.) No account is required to submit … note or to submit an obituary . For questions regarding the class notes and obituaries on our website, please e-mail … … Class notes and obituaries for May-June 2015 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: May-June 2015
Bette Davis at the Schlesinger
… who learns she’s terminally ill. That’s no spoiler. The diagnosis comes early, and the true drama springs from … ill-founded: a New York Times critic called the film “One of the most sensitive and haunting pictures of the season.” Not a dry eye in the house, yet the …
Issue: March-April 2015
Off the Shelf
… in New England, by Maureen Meister (University Press of New England, $45). This useful illustrated guide to the movement that flowered from 1890 to 1920 puts into … Fellow Carter Wiseman, now a lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture, puts this genre of productive criticism in …
Issue: November-December 2014
The Corporation, Complete
… The announcement on September 23 that Jessica Tuchman … V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. ’76, have been elected members of the University’s senior governing board, effective … ; and make it possible for the fellows to focus on matters of greatest strategic importance to Harvard. Tuchman, who …
Issue: November-December 2012
China's Great Flood May Be No Myth
… One of the oldest foundational stories in Chinese mythology recalls the Great Flood: a massive cataclysm in the upper Yellow … the first in Chinese history, marking the beginning of Chinese civilization. Already ancient by the time it was …
Harvard Sundered
… In a November Letter from Israel, chillingly titled “In the Cities of Killing” (adapted from Hayim Nahman Bailik’s 1904 poem … and other universities do when the next crisis inevitably arises? One suggestion—admittedly controversial—is to abstain …
Issue: January-February 2024
Bruno Carvalho
… Bruno Carvalho explored his native Rio de Janeiro in search of four things: soccer, books, films, and music. The city bus took Carvalho, now a professor of romance languages and literatures and co-director …
Issue: November-December 2021
Radcliffe Asks, “What Is Life?”
… physicist Erwin Schrödinger catalyzed a new way of thinking about the chemical and physical origins of biology with the publication of his book What Is Life? …