#adam rosenblatt

[hellocanticle]

Unheard Hovhaness

KALAN 773 Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) is among the most prolific of American composers. He has written so much music that even now, over twenty years since he exited the earthly plane, there remains much music that has not been recorded and manuscripts that await editing and publication. This beautiful recording fills some of those gaps. First I must say that Hovhaness holds a special place for…

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[theacademicminute]

"The ultimate sign of a society’s failure is the mass grave, where victims of violence lie stripped of their identities and separated from their loved ones."

Today on The Academic Minute, Adam Rosenblatt, visiting professor of peace, justice and human rights at Haverford College, discusses how politics can help or harm the search for the truth.

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[tracydimond]

The further I get into the writing process with students, the clearer it becomes that the best and most beautiful version of one student’s paper is not the same as the best and most beautiful version of her classmates’ papers — that the beauty to be found there is a complex dance between my assignment and the student’s own emergent voice. When a student really “gets it” — by which I mean not simply that she grasped the course content, but that she found a way to make it her own in writing or in speech (to replicate it on her own terms) — that moment is marked not merely by the satisfaction of an expectation fulfilled. It’s beautiful. It is as if something present but not yet visible in the early versions of the essay has now emerged, full of colors and moving wings — ready to go out into the world. Scarry spends a portion of her book exploring the connection between beauty and greeting; but as a teacher, I often experience the beauty of my students’ writing as a fond farewell.

from “On Beauty and Classroom Teaching” by Adam Rosenblatt

[marybirdsong]

How High Is Allison Janney on Bitter Party of 5? Watch & Let Frodo Tell You

How High Is Allison Janney on Bitter Party of 5? Watch & Let Frodo Tell You

Allison Janney is…

Pretty. And pretty funny. And pretty smart. And pretty tall.  HOW tall?  No one really knows. Noone except…. Frodo.  He knows.That’s right.  The only person who seems to know the intimate details of Ms. Janney’s physique is that iconic…

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