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...thing, Harvard provides an array of options for professors to take care of their children--from months-long maternity leaves to lightened teaching schedules to on-site child care...
...Corcoran Park housing project renovation, completed last year, has brought in a diverse array of new residents, including many transplanted Haitians...
...exchanges between Chick and Ravelstein cover a broad array of eternal questions, including, inevitably, death and the possibility of an afterlife. But the novel reads like the antithesis of abstractions. Ravelstein brims with life thanks to Chick's, that is, Bellow's, comic observations on the passing scene. Here are French waiters "working like acrobats" at a dinner Ravelstein throws for Chick at an exclusive Paris restaurant. Here is Chick on Ravelstein's notoriously messy eating habits: "An experienced hostess would have spread newspapers under his chair." Here is Ravelstein amused, laughing "like Picasso's wounded horse in Guernica, rearing...
...eight-minute bossa nova "The Curve of The Earth" provides some expansive and impressive melodic inventions, while still maintaining a paradoxically loose and driving Latin feel. Everything emerges extremely ear-friendly, and while Schwartz doesn't provide extraordinary insights into old material, he does offer a varying array of comfortable, well-worn tunes. This is a musician who focusses on his strengths but also knows his own limits, leading to an easy and diverse sound...
Such an enormous array of historical, religious and artistic cross-references poses a challenge to the viewer expecting to come away with a clear sense of how Mary has been portrayed over time. A recognition of the subtle connections between the artwork and the text as well as an appreciation of the art on its own terms is well worth the effort. Don't expect to digest this exhibit in one visit...