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...where the best of thought clings like dead ivy vines upon old dead brick”). Alongside it stands a display on Harvard’s poets, which chronicles the lives of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Stevens, and reveals that Gertrude Stein did not, in spite of the popular myth, receive an “A” for writing that it was far too nice a day to take an exam on the final for a William James-taught psychology seminar...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Lamont | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically un-concerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Response | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reopened the debate about the best way to extract energy in an environmentally responsible manner. However, the response to this spill has reinforced a regrettable, yet pervasive, myth. The climate-change debate is often portrayed as a battle between man and nature, in which only one side can come out ahead. But an examination of the technological options for energy production tells us that this is not the case...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin | Title: The Truth About Clean Energy | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

According to sources in the blogosphere, a high school senior was accepted by Harvard to join the Class of 2014 but then had his offer rescinded when he supposedly invited Harvard to "kiss [his] ass" in a Facebook status update. We at FlyBy set out to debunk the myth...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prefrosh's Acceptance Rescinded Over Facebook Status? | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

...quite at home...  aware of a lot of things but not sure of anything.” That feeling pervades this portrait of The Doors, lovingly assembled by director and writer Tom Dicillo, who recounts the history of the tumultuous band while trying to disentangle fact from myth...

Author: By Lauren B. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When You're Strange | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

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