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...couple’s two daughters, Jessica M. Rosenberg, graduated from Harvard College in 2004 and was co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students. Faust, raised in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, has devoted her scholarly career to the study of the South—with particular attention to issues of gender and race. “She is clearly one of the most distinguished historians in the country,” Hahn says. Her 1982 biography of a South Carolina plantation owner and senator, “James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design...
...told the graduates, “When you hear—in this most wonderfully tradition-bound institution—that something is because it always has been that way, take a moment to ask which of the past’s assumptions are embedded in that particular tradition...
...think that theatrical productions often get bogged down with artistic snobbery. Opera, in particular, has a reputation for being all snootiness: only the most intellectual people can truly appreciate the beauty of opera, etc. I couldn’t disagree more. In the end, all theater is about emotion. The most important thing is to express these emotions to the audience. If a director tries to cater to some pretentious expectation, the emotions don’t always get through...
...innovations in art and literature, even scorning much of his brother Henry’s work as overly experimental. Despite these flaws, Richardson’s book will occupy a comfortable place at the center of contemporary James biographies for years to come. Richardson is especially good at tracing particular James theories from their first gestations to their eventual appearance in published form. As Richardson puts it, while it may seem that James’ later philosophical framework was formulated far after his early interest in psychology, many of his later themes—religious experience, the meaning...
...Before we could eat, the Iranian Ambassador, Mohammed Hassan Akhtire, a confidant of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a sentimental speech about the significance of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. In particular, the turbaned diplomat remembered that Syria was the only country to support the fledgling Islamic Republic, and he said that relations were growing even stronger. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is due to visit Tehran in the near future, he announced...