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...Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1906-7, and Joyce's revolutionary novel, Ulysses, in 1922. The ambitious Schiff was pinning his hopes...
...able to articulate specifically what our objections were—and thus it gets reduced to some vague ‘discontent.’” Most of all, professors—even those who have been vocal in their criticism of Summers, including Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas—say that the Faculty should move past last month’s crisis despite stinging rebukes in the press. “To really respond would require going into specific ethical and managerial issues that simply keep the state of upheaval going...
...award’s companion Cultural Rhythms host duties, Hayek jokes—referring to the campy roasting of celebrities Halle Barry and Richard Gere, who were also on campus recently to receive honors as the Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year— “I have it easy.” She continues explaining her appreciation for the Harvard cultural festival, “Everybody is so unique in their own dance... I [also] think that’s where everyone came together here—in a celebration of differences...
...facial features, and is sensitive to pain, the argument that the woman should have the privacy to decide what she wants to do with her body – when, in fact, the child can survive outside her body – no longer holds. New York District Judge Richard Casey was right when he said that “The Court finds that the testimony at trial and before Congress establishes that D&X [partial-birth abortion] is a gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized medical procedure.” Unless the health of the mother would be seriously endangered...
...Richard S. Beck...