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...sure I've left my e-mail account opened in the Science Center," says Micaela K. Root '00. "I guess anyone could have read...
Ballet and opera, now further removed than Shakespeare from popular appreciation, actually took much longer to ascend to the ranks of "high culture." Opera actually took root in very few countries. Audiences had difficulty accepting dialogue in song, much the trouble some audiences have with Evita. But where opera and ballet were accepted, they were accepted by the masses as popular culture. Opera and ballet were not "high culture...
...very wise woman once told me that if you can identify one ideology and travel with it across battlefields which fight against it in the course of your life and still maintain that same belief even though it has been challenged to the very root, even though you oscillated here and there, then that belief is yours for life. Such an experience it has been for me at Harvard, and this personal growth to me is just as valuable as any social change that may have occurred in my time here as well...
When he arrives there for dinner, owner Thierry Rautureau comes out to hug him and pour champagne. There follows a procession of a dozen courses, from black truffles and pureed celery root in smoked game consomme to venison with obscure types of mushrooms, each with different vintage wines. (The bill for two comes to $390, and picking it up assuages my discomfort that Gates had insisted on putting the previous evening's $37 tab at the Indian restaurant on his MasterCard...
What about my good Ol' Town Teams? I was beginning to doubt that I would ever have any gloating rights here in Hollis South. The Bruins and Celtics, as usual, are mediocre at best. Basketball is one of my favorite sports, but I can't even really root for UMass. now that Calipari and Camby are gone. So I'm left with...football. But wait! The Patriots have taken the AFC by storm. As I write this, they are one victory away from winning the league championship. So now it's my turn. I mention Drew Bledsoe at every opportunity...