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Leading Man
… as “an entertainer, a mere mummer,” primarily in live theater, for 40 years. As president of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), celebrating its … special-effect make-up and chemicals (e.g., smoke and fog machines). Most pressing, Wyman reports, “is maintaining …
Issue: May-June 2013
Off the Shelf
… as top god Wotan. Costumes for Rheingold were based on "the latest discoveries of prehistoric times." From the book First Nights at the … has not for years. A powerful narrative. Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to …
Issue: November-December 2004
The Civilizing Art
… In committing The Poetry of John Milton (Harvard, $39.95), an enormous new book of criticism, professor of English Gordon Teskey begins with …
Issue: November-December 2015
From the Archives: The Case for Smaller Classes
… As students return to schools across the country, we look back to a description of one of the classic experiments in education: an attempt … works in education, a quarter-trillion-dollar-plus enterprise that vitally affects our children. In the case of …
Complexity and the Wealth of Nations
… A truism about the benefits of international trade holds that countries … and labor. Hidalgo and Hausmann say they were not surprised to find that their measures of economic complexity …
Issue: March-April 2010
Reading the Tea Leaves
… Commencements provide annual practice in uniting the Harvard community and celebrating its members, … the thirtieth University president), more personal, one-off events. As such, they may signal new leaders’ interests … the world will look” in the future. In the event, external crises—the financial meltdown of 2008 and the Great …
Issue: September-October 2023
Walter Cronkite Issued a Challenge to the Class of 1980
… The class of 1980 invited Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in news at the time, to deliver their … advised. … Walter Cronkite issued a challenge to the class of 1980 … Walter Cronkite Issued a Challenge to the Class of …
Can Multivitamins Reduce Cancer Risk and Slow Memory Loss?
… Multivitamins have ballooned into a $40 billion industry in the United States. In a world captivated by quick fixes, … promise hold up under scientific scrutiny? JoAnn Manson , professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of …
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
… Sometime in the mid-1980s, comics, a centuries-old art form, became legitimate. Prompted by a sudden influx of adult-themed and thematically heavy works like Art … ’08 learned as much while researching True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee (2021), a biography of the Marvel …
Issue: March-April 2022
College Admits 13.9 Percent of Early Applicants
… The College has admitted 13.9 percent of early-action … are women, the University statement said. The number has risen from 52.9 last year and just 33 percent the year …
Working at Beauty
… O ne of the more frustrating things about learning math is that professors insist it is beautiful. Imagine not just asking … classrooms a short walk from the math department coffee machines, and try to pull beauty out of a pile of preprints. …
Issue: January-February 2020
What’s Become of “Character”?
… Kenan professor of English and of visual and environmental studies Marjorie … Garber is an eclectic and creative scholar. In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession (Farrar, Straus & … found a suitably broad subject for her interests, spanning the meanings of the term from the ancient word for engraving …
Issue: July-August 2020
Off the Shelf
… Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun , by Paul M. Barrett ’83, J.D. ’87 (Crown, $26). A veteran journalist profiles the making and marketing of a simple, lethal …
Issue: May-June 2012
Video: Clues in the Blood
… Metabolomics studies hundreds of metabolites found in the bloodstream, in an attempt to understand everything from … … Video: scientists explain the emerging field of metabolomics. … Video: Clues in the blood: scientists …
“Fully Part of the Harvard Family”
… The new First Generation Harvard Shared Interest Group (SIG) is “the natural outcome of Harvard’s very laudable HFAI [ Harvard Financial Aid … households with incomes of $65,000 or less. (That group rises to 25 percent at the $80,000-income benchmark.) …
Issue: September-October 2012