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...There is no object so foul," Emerson says, "that intense light will not make it beautiful." This aphorism, reflecting the 19th century's core faith in progress and reason, could be the guiding premise behind Roger Martin du Gard's expansive novel, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort. A memoir of the eponymous character, the novel is a testament to reflection and self-examination. Maumort, born in 1870 to an old landowning family in the Perche region of Northern France, strives to illuminate his past while his family estate serves as quarters for a Nazi regiment during the German occupation. Focusing...
Those who have signed the petition include Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 and Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates...
...other course description includes the words, "aesthetic du cool of Quentin Tarantino." And no other course has Shaft and She's Gotta Have It on the required viewing list...
...Marcus Garvey b) W.E.B. Du Bois c) Jesse Jackson d) Martin Luther King...
...made independently by different people in different places at roughly the same time. And witness--as testament to the impetus behind easing communication--how often those independent breakthroughs were in information technology itself: the telegraph (Charles Wheatstone and Samuel F.B. Morse, 1837); color photography (Charles Cros and Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1868); the phonograph (Charles Cros--again!--and Thomas Edison, 1877); the telephone (Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell, 1876)--and so on, all the way up to the microchip (Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce...