Many of the yoga classes around today seem designed more to torture you than to help you reach nirvana. The warrior pose, the downward-facing dog, and the extended side-angle pose are nothing in comparison to the really advanced postures, the hard-core twists and bends and joint-crushing coils that most people would need several lifetimes to contort themselves into. Not to mention that we everyday folks now have to contend with yogas new image as a centering device for beautiful people, the Madonnas and Gwyneths and Tom Cruises of the world.
Walk around and look at everything. Touch things and move things and whatever. Kitty Pechet wants visitors to her studio to experience the artwork to the fullest. Theres a lot to see. Colorful horses canter across a canvas at one end of the huge, bright space and a wash of monochromatic waves is frozen, unfinished on paper, at the other. Many styles and sizes of calligraphy, works in oil, ink, and pastels cover the walls from wide pine floor to sky-lit ceiling. Obstructing a passage from the studio into an adjoining room leans an item that, but for its brightly painted floral design, appears out of place. What is this petite Cambridge calligrapher who teaches art at Harvard Neighbors doing with a giant surfboard looming over the works in her art studio? Spend a few minutes and Pechet is happy to tell about how the wife of the Senior Tutor of Lowell House in 1960 learned how to hang ten in 1990. In this excerpt from a talk she gave at morning prayers at the Memorial Church last month, Pechet explains how she got onboard for the first time at the unlikely age of 50.
O’Connor to give Lowell Lecture Thomas H. O’Connor, the prolific author and Boston historian, will deliver the annual Lowell Lecture on Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p.m. at Hall C…
The Harvard Alumni Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2001 Harvard Medal: Samuel C. Butler ’51, LL.B. ’54, Victor Kwok-King Fung Ph.D. ’71, and Myra A. Mayman.…
Richard Evans Schultes, the Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology Emeritus and renowned expert on medicinal uses of plants, died April 10 in Boston at age 86.
Senior Peggy T. Lim has been selected winner of this years Harvard College Womens Leadership Award for showing exceptional leadership, contributing to womens advancement, and positively affecting the lives of her fellow students.
John Mich is doubly gifted. Not only does he know a lot about art, but he knows what he likes. So, when someone in the Harvard Information Office mentioned that the office needed a new coloring book, Mich, assistant director for events and operations of the Office of News and Public Affairs, knew just where to go.
If you train a monkey to look in a mirror, then put a dab of odorless red dye on its eyebrow, the monkey will try to rub the dye off the mirror. If you do the same with a chimpanzee, this more advanced ape will wipe its own eyebrow.
Morning Exercises, Thursday, June 7 To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on…
April 17, 1893 – The first Blaschka glass flowers are formally presented to the Botanical Museum as a memorial to Dr. Charles Eliot Ware, Class of 1834, by his widow…
Enrique Anderson Imbert, the Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University from 1965 until his retirement in 1980, died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 6, 2000. He…
The following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 7. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced the establishment of a University Center for the Environment. The new center will draw on the strengths of and serve all of Harvards faculties and will support the development of multidisciplinary approaches to the solution of complex environmental problems. It is our hope that this center will become the worlds leading university-based enterprise for the study of the environment, said Fineberg.
Good morning, folks. Cmon right in. How ya doing, Marie! Jodi, hows that thesis coming? Wheres Ethel today? Step right up, ladies. How are you, sir? What a glorious day!
The Radcliffe Culinary Friends presents its spring culinary event, The Life Around Food, on Thursday, May 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Meridian Hotel, 250 Franklin St., Boston.
Engaging in electoral politics is an exciting and rewarding way to try to heal the ills of the world, but its not the only way – that was the consensus of a distinguished forum Monday, April 9, at the Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics.
Harvard Magazine names Cohen and Levenson fellows Arianne Cohen and Eugenia (Jane) V. Levenson have been named Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2001-02 academic year, when…
While University administrators met with leaders of Harvards largest union, HUCTW, to work out terms of a new contract due to go to union members for a ratification vote on May 1, another set of negotiations produced revisions to the job classification grid for HUCTW members. The new contract, if ratified, will not go into effect until July 1. However, the new job grading system and a number of new job titles go into effect on April 16. It will replace the existing job grades 2 through 10 with grades 47U through 55U so that HUCTW jobs will become part of one continuous classification system ranging from 47 to 64. Job grades for current employees will be mapped to the new numbering system as indicated in the chart above.
The exposure of bar and restaurant staff to tobacco smoke from patrons can be as high as the exposure of active smokers, according to a study in the March 9 issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal. Wael Al-Delaimy, the studys principal author, is currently a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Nutrition.
The 2001 Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture will be given by Reynolds Price, James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Memorial Church. The lecture is free and open to the public.
A memorial service for the Right Reverend and Right Honorable Lord Robert Runcie of Cuddesdon will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Memorial Church. The service is open to the public. It will be the only such service offered in the United States in memory of the late archbishop. Lord Runcie served as the 102nd archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, and during his tenure expressed reformist ideas that were often in opposition to the then Conservative government.
When it comes to the Ivy League, the competitive atmosphere among the best and the brightest – from the intellectual to the athletic – can be thick at times. Rarely does an opportunity arise in which Ivy League students can cooperate toward a common goal. Yet this spring, more than 3,500 Ivy students will do their part in breathing new life into that old air.
You wouldnt think someone could get in trouble for saying that people in the past loved their children or that husbands and wives, at least in some cases, cared about and respected one another.
Some Harvard educators were the ones doing the listening last week when actress Dame Diana Rigg staged a brief demonstration on the proper use of theatrical vocal techniques.
No other recent decade seems quite as dated as the 1950s. The 60s comes close with its bell-bottoms and tie-dyed T-shirts, psychedelic posters, and ubiquitous peace signs. But many of us still recognize the 60s as the convulsive birth pang or our own self-indulgent, anything-goes era. The decade of the 1950s, however, is a world apart.
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