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...admiration for Lena Chen is not conventional. I don’t particularly enjoy the blog’s writing, nor do I aspire to her life and fame. I don’t sympathize with her problems. What I admire about Chen, assuming her blog is written in relative earnest, is that she’s willing to write about these matters so openly. It’s what sets her apart from most of Harvard...
...fact the opposite may be true,” Reeves added. Kelley again drew fire after requesting more information on the difference between speed bumps and speed humps. “You could find this out verbally; why have someone sit down for two to three days to write a report that may not meet your needs? Why not have a verbal exchange?” Davis asked. In an interview, Decker said she thought “people are just frustrated trying to understand Councillor Kelley. I don’t think there’s ever been such...
...fields, traveling with her unit all over China. It was an arduous life, but she believed she was rendering service to her country and its people. Now, as she munched her sandwiches, she told me about the day's events at her film studio. ''I spent the whole day writing Big Character Posters for the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. We were told that the more one writes, the more revolutionary enthusiasm one demonstrates, so everybody wrote and wrote.'' ''Was that why you didn't come home for dinner?'' ''We gave up having lunch and dinner to show our revolutionary zeal...
...their product is practical; the approved fields will reward and provide flexibility to students curious about a subject far removed from their own concentration. They are also an improvement for students who wish to pursue two somewhat-related fields, but who are not sufficiently interested in their intersection to write a joint thesis. To top it off, the EPC has allocated a generous amount of resources to the nascent program, ensuring that even in pursuit of these minor concentrations, students will be advised and assisted well...
...that raises my last quibble about the museuming of comics. Many of the artists included as writers more than "directors." Put it this way: would you rather see (read) Kurtzman's Mad or Spiegelman's Maus illustrated by other artists, or have others write stories for which Kurtzman and Spiegelman provided the drawings? The first, obviously, because the genius was in the writing. Indeed, though Kurtzman and Feldstein did their own drawing for some EC comic covers and stories, most were illustrated by terrific artists (Elder, Wallace Wood, Jack Davis) who brought their own personalities to the equation. At Marvel...