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...Harvard, this kind of analysis is not considered acceptable. Students are taught that “the devil is in the details?? by professors who have spent their lives illuminating the many and varied stories that go towards forming the history of a region. In this, Harvard generally does an excellent job. The biggest challenge for academics is to get a wider hearing without diluting their message. It is also a responsibility that they pass onto their graduating students...
...Deposition,” a lawyer follows an adolescent girl who has entranced him. In “Deep Kiss,” a middle-aged man recalls a girlfriend whom he treated badly. Wolff brushes the actual drama into the shadows. By drawing seemingly obscure details??turning on the heater in a car, a curl of hair on someone’s nape, a remembered lunch—into the foreground, he manages to imbue the characters with a real emotional accessibility.Only two of the 11 new stories are letdowns. “That Room?...
...detailed intricacy of the dolls’ faces. The juxtaposition of the large portraits with the small dolls—the ability to take in the photographs at a distance combined with the necessity of having a doll practically in hand to see the finely crafted details??achieves Ducharme’s purpose of making the dolls more available for admiration. But viewers’ appreciation then becomes centered more on the technique and artistry of the photographs themselves, rather than the beauty of the traditions and culture represented in the carvings. Ducharme?...
...report’s words, “connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard, and to help them understand and appreciate the complexities of the world and their role in it.”Alas, the devil is in the details??or the lack thereof. Despite outlining a new rationale and rubric for deciding whether courses will count, General Education does not adequately address the Core’s most egregious failings: its constraining menu of course choices and poor teaching standards.Instead of sharply defining the new system, the Faculty...
Paul B. Davis ’07-’08, who contributed to a collection of student essays written in 2005 on the purpose and structure of a Harvard education, said that “the devil is in the details?? when it comes to defining the new requirements, such as the degree to which departmental courses will count towards general education requirements...