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William Kentridge: “In Praise of Shadows”
… The lights dim , and an excerpt of one of William Kentridge’s animated films begins. A parade of silhouette puppets marches from the left side of the screen to the right, seen in profile. …
The Data on Drama
… frequently than success—and sometimes, says assistant professor of English Derek Miller, that is a mistake. Miller, who studies theatrical history, is engaged in an experimental project he … over time, hand in hand with the well-documented rise of mega-musicals. Successful productions such as Cats …
Issue: November-December 2015
A Model City
… says Fred Gevalt ’72, M.Arch. ’76. In his case, over the past eight years, in the basement of his home in Arlington, Massachusetts, Gevalt has … a notable element of urban life. Not far off, a high-rise residential area overlooks the town’s fish pier. On one …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Hack as Genius
… Earlier this year, Houghton Library announced one of the most exciting donations in its history: the Donald and … "This mournful truth is everywhere confessed,/SLOW RISES WORTH,/BY POVERTY DEPRESSED." Johnson's own rise was …
Issue: November-December 2004
The Feelings Are Mutually Exclusive
… Feelings color all our experiences, and for some people the filter of emotions can go from rose to purple to black as quickly and subtly as the setting of the sun. Once referred to as manic-depressive illness, …
War of Words
… president was bound to establish new priorities, altering the expectations built up during the prior decade and … new millennium afforded opportunities to take stock of what use was being made of the wealth that had been accumulated in the prior decade. …
Issue: March-April 2002
“Ambitious of Doing the World Some Good”
… One of the more interesting observations in Mapping the Future , an … inside journalism spend a lot of time worrying about crises inside journalism, just as lawyers spend time worrying about crises inside their profession. These anxieties, spilling …
Catcher on the Fly
… The game's turning point— and perhaps the play that … score tied 14-14, Crimson quarterback Neil Rose '02 ('03) lofted a pass 30 yards in the air to wide receiver Carl … back Stephen Faulk charged across at him. "I caught him out of the corner of my eye," Morris says. "I thought, just …
Issue: September-October 2002
Making Allston Housing (More) Affordable
… A January 22 public hearing to discuss the construction of affordable homes at a Harvard-donated … Honan-Allston branch library and north through the enterprise research campus (ERC, now under construction) all the …
Meeting the Multiverse
… It began with Isaac Newton. With the publication of his Principia in 1687, Newton became the … and parallel universes? Hypotheses in high-energy physics rise and fall on the Internet these days, sometimes in a …
Issue: November-December 2005
Dante the Disruptor
… Defenders have attitude, and their mind-set differs sharply from that of players who line up on the other side of the ball. Call it the outlook of a stopper. "You have to …
Issue: September-October 2003
Chapter & Verse
… source for a story about two patients so frustrated by their psychiatrist’s silence in response to whatever they said that they conspired to get a rise out of him. They made up an elaborate dream full of bizarre …
Issue: July-August 2014
Steampunk’s Sole
… kooky scientist’s air-propelled time machine housed within the skeletal frame of a covered wagon. This prime example of Steampunk’s aesthetic playfully melds imaginary and …
Issue: November-December 2016
News in Brief
… Nobelists Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D. ’82 , professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Victor …
Issue: January-February 2025
Endowment Expectations
… Following the near-record 33.6 percent investment return on endowment … in fiscal 2022—when financial markets took account of the pandemic stimulus and rising inflation, and the … to suggest that UVIMCO’s fund managers were perhaps surprised, like many institutional investors, by the outsized …