Card catalog
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The Cuala Press was a family-run business in Dublin for most of the 20th century. The family, however, happened to be named Yeats, and among their products was a series of Christmas cards that drew upon the talents of Ireland’s best writers and artists.
California streamin’
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The third episode of The BC, a parody of Fox TV’s The OC, is now on air. Will Woody Atryan find happiness on the Heights? Will Seth Lohan ever get it together? Tune in.
Songs of the season
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The University Chorale and Symphony Orchestra’s 2005 Christmas concert.
Googled: Joseph V. Bastianich ’89, Mama’s boy
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A renowned chef’s son builds an empire of Italian food and wine.
Warming up
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Sights and sounds from the University’s new music practice studios in Lyons Hall.
New man around campus
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BC’s new academic vice president Cutberto Garza on his callings.
Shelter from the storm
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A conversation among New Orleans students who have landed at Boston College.
The Interview: Illuminated verse
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Professor Paul Mariani and illustrator Barry Moser talk about their poetic collaboration.
In Memoriam: J. Robert Barth, SJ
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Remembering the life and voice of a champion for the arts.
Playing on
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Four BC faculty composers present recent works and talk about being artists in a genre that commands little cultural attention.
The Interview: Recovery program
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Veteran political observer Alan Wolfe on how America has lost, and can regain, its sense of purpose.
Googled: William H. Russell ’88, cold-weather winemaker
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Creating vintage New England
Googled: Gregory W. Kehoe ’76, evidence gatherer
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Making the legal case against Saddam.
Googled: Distinguished guests (2005)
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The University’s 2005 honorary degree recipients.
In his time
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Boston College Magazine asked a handful of observers to examine the papacy of John Paul II from their respective vantage points.
The Election of Pope Benedict XVI
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Links to media websites that feature thoughts on the new pope from Boston College faculty.
Celluloid dreams
Slideshow from @BC
BC honors student filmmakers at the first annual Baldwin Awards.
Googled: James Balog ’74, nature’s photographer
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The artist returns to the Heights for the premiere of Tree.
The Interview: Our man in Saigon
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History professor Seth Jacobs on one of the most ruinous foreign policy decisions of the postwar era.
“Killing Silence”
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John Michalczyk’s documentary on how the Sicilian people and government reclaimed their island from the Mafia.
“Accommodations of Desire”
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Images from the McMullen Museum’s exhibit of surrealist art from the remarkable collection of Julien Levy.
Googled: David Plante ’61, memoirist
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A prolific novelist turns inward for American Ghosts: A Memoir.
Declamations
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Classic readings of classic poems from John Mahoney and Robert Barth, SJ.
Impassioned debate
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Perspectives on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ from Boston College faculty Richard Blake, SJ, and Philip Cunningham, and through an extensive set of Web links offered by BC’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning.
Mr. Shaw
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A new exhibition at the Burns Library reveals a willful, vegetarian, health-obsessed, literary dynamo whose wit still delights, even if his political theories no longer persuade.
Googled: Thomas Heath ’43, the poet heard round the world
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Remembering the author of “Proud Refrain.”
Proud Refrain
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A number of archival documents illuminating Thomas Heath’s long relationship with the University.
The Interview: Ritual life
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History professor James O’Toole on transformations in American Catholic religious practice.
