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...funding both acquisitions and digitization of current holdings, which is an intricate and costly process.The Open Collections Program is an example of Harvard’s foray into the digital realm. The project was started in 2002 and serves a community much broader than Harvard’s own. Sidney Verba ’53, the former director of the Harvard University Library, characterizes its mission as an outreach effort: “What we’re trying to do is use digitization to make a large part of the collection...publicly available to everybody, so that people...
...delirious combination of hubris and stupidity - does not come along every day, even for protean performers like Hoffman. Yet here he is, deadly calm and dead-pan hilarious as Andy, the meanest man in the world, in what may be (slightly more arguably) the meanest movie in the world, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead...
...most wanted to learn about Deutch’s directorial debut “Pretty in Pink” and Thompson’s star-making turn in “Back to the Future.” Commenting on his film’s success, Deutch paraphrased director Sidney Lumet. “‘When I was doing movies in the fifties, I didn’t know it was the Golden Age of movies,’” said Deutch, quoting Lumet. “That’s what it was like with...
...talent into neat categories--angry young man, cocky hero, quirky romantic lead--he has hopped around among all three. "It's unusual that an actor would have not only the aspiration but also the talent to move between these different gears," says William Horberg, president of production for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, which financed the less than $15 million Lars. "He doesn't feel the need to do what's expected of him, or architect a career from the standpoint of maximizing his bankability...
...much farther than that. While Faust found “something wonderfully energizing about September in Harvard Yard,” the same could not be said for her prose. Bok: 311 words Last year, then-Interim President Derek C. Bok wrote to the community announcing the retirement of Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. A brief 311-word note, Bok’s letter is almost 1/6 the length of Faust’s and perhaps 6 times more readable. Summers: 465 words In a time before the infamous women-in-science remarks...