“A Wrinkle in Time,” it seems, is meant to be a book — and nothing more than that. Last month I warned fans in a Collegian review of Madeleine L’Engle’s novel “A Wrinkle in Time” that Disney’s movie adaptation would disappoint if it departed from the foundations of the book and swapped a story for...
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard.” This is how Billy Wilder described his role in 1960, the year of “The Apartment,” for which he won three Academy Awards as not only director, but also producer and screenwriter. Anthony Lane from The New Yorker wrote of Wilder’s...
Surprise! It’s a play not put on by theater students. Sword fights, falling in love all of a sudden, and an unexpected ending: G.K. Chesterton’s play “The Surprise” has all the elements to delight audiences and make them think. Independent students will present “The Surprise” this weekend in Mauck Dormitory. Showings of the 80-minute play...
While many students flocked to warmer weather, 20 Hillsdale College vocalists traveled to East Lansing on March 3 to showcase their talents at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Great Lakes Regional Competition at Michigan State. The competition featured students from schools in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario, each performing three pieces in either...
Telemachus earned his manhood when he told Penelope to shut up. This proposed paradigm for all Western literary and political discourse is not the way I wanted to start my Women’s History Month. But here we are, in 2018 #MeToo America, and popular classicist, respected author, and famed Twitter victim Mary Beard claims that despite...