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...warm, breezy Saturday evening, Gross pauses on the lawn of Radcliffe Yard to chat with students. He and his wife are on their way to attend the Harvard Ballet Company’s “Once Upon a Time: An Evening of Fairy Tales?? at the Rieman Dance Center...
...Pretend you’re sitting in my living room having a cup of coffee,” says children’s author Lois Lowry to the 260-plus-person Literature and Arts A-18: “Fairy Tales?? class. Lowry, who lives in Cambridge and has written over 30 books including The Giver, Number the Stars and the Anastasia series, resembles a spunky, low maintenance grandmother in her red buttondown sweater. This comforting and casual statement fits with her unassuming thoughtfulness evident as she starts to speak about her novel, Number the Stars, which...
...dozens of letters, although now, they are often e-mails. The letters not only include suggestions for story topics, or their useful names, but Lowry has seen that they also exhibit an intangible bond to Lowry and her books. Tatar, who invited Lowry to her “Fairy Tales?? class, speculates as to why readers feel so tied to Lowry’s books, “Lowry is certainly an author who has struck a chord with readers because her books have a way of addressing childhood fears by creating monsters but then she writes...
...next level, inviting students to socialize them at their homes at dinner parties or other forms of debauchery. Some of these parties are legendary—Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar’s “Fairy Tales?? party that includes chocolate-covered strawberries and cocoa at her home, or William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield’s receptions that have brought the likes of Tom Stoppard and Saul Bellow to Cambridge, among them. Many professors who have been bold enough to organize...
...plot of Into the Woods weaves together well-known fairy tales??including those of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk—with an original plot involving the attempts of a Baker and his Wife to beget a child. The brilliance of the show is its ability to use the fairy tales as a starting point and dig deeper, questioning the value and durability of happiness won too easily. As the lyrics of the finale attest, “Wishes come true, not free...