Winter 2012
FEATURE
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Queens of the Masai Mara |
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Don’t Shoot the Messengers! |
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Showstopper |
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Greek Drama After Antonis Samaras ’74 dislodged his former Amherst roommate, George Papandreou ’75, from the highest political office in Greece, the Class of 1974 secretary put out a call to friends who knew the leaders way back when. By James Warren ’74 |
departments
Letters
The 100th anniversary issue
College Row
Richard Wilbur’s drafts, galleys and drawings—What happens when parents visit—Studying literature by the pound—The Lord Jeff reopens—And more
My Life
Dean of the Faculty Gregory S. Call
Sports
Two baseball players might get drafted—The best sports photos of the year
Insights
Vacation in absentia
Amherst Creates
Theater: Almost, Maine, by John Cariani ’91—Fiction: The Vices, by Professor Lawrence Douglas—TV: CBS’s A Gifted Man, created by Susannah Grant ’84 —History: Charles C. Mann ’76’s 1493—Art: Sports and American Art, by Professor Allen Guttmann—Journal: Farm living in 1972
Visit
Art students preparing honors projects for their professors’ scrutiny had a chance to reverse the direction of that critical gaze.
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Passion
“On the one hand, we’re learning a specific set of dance skills,” says Daniel Trenner, coach of the Argentine Tango Club at Amherst and a pioneer in tango’s modern revival. “On the other hand, we’re really studying something about the history of gender and the history of how men and women related to each other in civilized societies.”
Photo by Rob Mattson