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...name of Trovato presented their collection of preppy chic polo shirts and cotton canvas clam-diggers in a tableau vivant that was meant to evoke an estate auction. They sing their tune by way of telling elaborate stories that give the straightforward merch a sexier context. This season the plot consisted of a rich, irreverent couple who had lost their fortune and had to sell their belongings for cash...
...surprising quantity of courses centered on literature, arts, and media. For movie buffs, Kirkland House Master Tom Conley’s FC 21, “Cinema et culture francaise, de 1896 à nos jours,” places French cinematic masterworks in their cultural and historical context. The to-die-for syllabus includes Jean Renoir’s brilliant and hilarious class comedy “The Rules of the Game,” Bunuel’s surrealist shorts, Godard’s flawless “Breathless,” and Truffaut’s classic...
...history to contextualize and draw conclusions about literature, and vice versa. Daily Hist and Lit work involves understanding various primary and secondary source “texts”—which can be anything from cartoons to hard-core literary theory to musicals—through the context of their historical framework.But this friendly community of keen minds is a far cry from the Brady Bunch. It’s an Honors department with a capital H, meaning that you have to write a thesis to graduate, as well as pass an oral examination...
...yellow: "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." This is already an improvement over BibleGateway, which needs to be told to provide the verse in context. Better still, if I tell eBible to, the verse will appear highlighted in blue every time I pull up the chapter- hey, this is really Dave's Bible- all that's missing is my synthetic-fur cover...
...question is: what then is driving the pontiff to make this particular call to a renewed sense of faith based on reason? Naturally, the leader of Roman Catholicism has an inherent proselytizing purpose. But in the context of this groundbreaking speech, there is another objective...