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Harvard also proved that it would be a contender beyond this year, showing its depth at the men’s and women’s junior varsity levels...
...team recorded a 10-5 win over the Fordham Rams and a 12-9 triumph over the Iona Gaels. The Crimson (9-8) was led by sophomore Spencer Livingston’s seven goals and a stifling defense anchored by junior goalkeeper Jay Connolly. Harvard’s depth was once again showcased, as seven different players found themselves on the scoreboard. “Overall, we did an excellent job of controlling the tempo,” coach Erik Farrar said. “We were just deeper than they were.” The Crimson looks to build...
...true to its name; like a diptych—two parallel wooden panels connected by a hinge—the main characters’ stories were separate and dissimilar, yet convened on a singular theme of anger that emerged throughout the play. The complexity of that theme lent uncommon depth to its characters, and made “Diptych” a moving exploration of the human condition...
...pursue them because they offer us as individuals and as societies a depth and breadth of vision we cannot find in the inevitably myopic present. We pursue them too because just as we need food and shelter to survive, just as we need jobs and seek education to better our lot, so too we as human beings search for meaning. We strive to understand who we are, where we came from, where we are going and why. For many people, the four years of undergraduate life offer the only interlude permitted for unfettered exploration of such fundamental questions...
...novel is nearly as thick as a tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than smoke.While each sentence, each paragraph, and each page is unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness and beauty, “Tree of Smoke” ultimately proves enigmatic, inaccessible, and disappointing. In the novel, which is mostly...