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Salvador Dali Show on View at Hillel

May 7, 2013 at 1:10 pm

Relating to the Core’s study of the Old and New Testaments, is a fascinating series of lithographs from later in Salvador Dali’s career, titled Aliyah: The Rebirth of Israel, depicting the history of the Jewish people’s return to Israel. Here is an extract from BU Today’s article on the topic: While 250 copies of the Aliyahlithographs were […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Art, Community, Curriculum, Great Personalities | Tagged Art, commemoration, exhibition, history, Israel, jewish, paintings, Salvador Dali | Comments (0)

Explaining Nietzsche and Existentialism to 5-Year-Olds

May 3, 2013 at 4:25 pm

Relating to CC202’s study of Friedrich Nietzsche is an excellent and amusing attempt to explain his existentialism to a group of 5-year-olds. Here is the video: For more information, visit bit.ly/108bPAL.

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Activities, Community, Core Authors, Great Questions | Tagged children, Existence, existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche, fun, kids, Nietzsche, philosophy, questions | Comments (0)

A Review of Kurt Vonnegut’s Letters

April 30, 2013 at 12:21 pm

The Core presents a review of Kurt Vonnegut’s Letters, by Keith Miller. Vonnegut is not a writer directly studied in Core classes, however, his influence on the literary world is worth examining. Here is an excerpt: Most of Vonnegut’s early writing is – despite his protestations about “genre-ism” – fairly easy to ghettoise as science […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Great Personalities | Tagged author, genre, Keith Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, letters, personality, review, writer | Comments (0)

Salvador Dali: Dante’s Paradiso

April 30, 2013 at 11:49 am

Relating to CC102′s study of Dante’s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Paradiso. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/16iqVvI. To view Dali’s illustrations for Inferno, visit bit.ly/10jHp1E, and for Purgatorio, visit bit.ly/17H3fQT.

By mdimov | Also posted in Academics, Art, Community, Core Authors, Curriculum, Great Personalities | Tagged dante, Dante Alighieri, drawing, illustration, painting, Paradiso, picture, Salvador Dali, The Divine Comedy | Comments (0)

Writers’ Reasons For Reading

April 24, 2013 at 9:46 am

Here is where these great writers get their zest for reading: “Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.” Aldous Huxley “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Art, Core Authors, Future of the Book, Great Personalities, Great Questions | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Angela Carter, book, drama, Franz Kafka, interest, motivation, reading, W Somerset Maugham | Comments (0)

Core Banquet: Invitations!

April 24, 2013 at 9:32 am

To all Core scholars: You are invited to next week’s Core Banquet; we’re very much looking forward to the occasion. We would like to invite you to submit your shout-outs and photos, so that they can be inserted into the slide show that will be playing throughout the evening. Any photos (of Core friends, classes, […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Community, Core in the City, Core Lecturers, Events, Friday Fun | Tagged banquet, Core Banquet, drink, end, food, fun, gathering, memories, music, pictures, semester, together | Comments (0)

An Oddly Modern Antiquarian Bookshop

April 23, 2013 at 1:29 pm

In an intriguing article for the New York Times, Jody Rosen discusses a fascinating but little-known bookstore called Monkey’s Paw, and gives ideas on how such businesses fit into today’s literary world. Here is an extract: “Life-Spark Stories for the Intelligent Young.” Attributed to the author “R. K.,” it tells the story of a “bright […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Art, Community, Future of the Book | Tagged age, antique, antiquity, balance, book, bookstore, future, literature, new, odd, rare, technology | Comments (0)

WPA Literature-Related Poster #6

April 22, 2013 at 9:00 am

The Core would like to share an interesting source of literature-related art: The Federal Art Project, the visual arts arm of the WPA program from August 29, 1935 until June 30, 1943. The FAP commissioned unemployed artists, including Jackson Pollack, to create public service posters, murals and paintings. The paintings depict various programs and projects sponsored […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Art, Community, Great Photograph | Tagged Community, FAP, Federal, mural, painting, Poster, program, progress, work, WPA | Comments (0)

Discoveries Lecture Series Presents: Pricing Looks, Pricing Gender

April 18, 2013 at 1:09 pm

Fashion modeling is one of a handful of occupations in which women routinely earn more than men, commanding wage premiums up to 75 percent. But why—and at what cost? Assistant Professor of Sociology Ashley Mears will lead us through an exploration of the economics of the modeling industry, drawing on ethnographic data from within the […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, alumni, Announcements, Community, EnCore, Great Questions | Tagged alum, alumni, Discoveries Lecture Series, gender, look, Price | Comments (0)

Trojan Women Performances!

April 18, 2013 at 11:11 am

Among the greatest of all antiwar dramas, Trojan Women meditates on the moments of individual choice that separate death and life, despair and hope, future and past. In a contemporary adaptation by Jocelyn Clarke, characters such as Odysseus who were formerly seen but not heard appear, and live original music underscores the timeless tale. Acclaimed […]

By mdimov | Also posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Community, Core in the City, Friday Fun | Tagged acting, actora, actress, antiwar, drama, performance, play, production, theater, Trojan Women, Troy | Comments (0)

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