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...some point during their lifetimes. Third, universities themselves benefit from the wider exchange of ideas that arises from diverse student bodies. What about for homosexual applicants? Until recently, Harvard has been quite a hostile place for gay students to go to school. From secret courts in the early 20th century charged with evicting homosexuals to tacit ostracism that continues to some degree today, Harvard’s history with gay students isn’t one of its shining achievements. Thus it would seem that a “minority” sexual orientation would fit the bill for affirmative...
...wonder to myself, where are the Saudi religious police when you need them? Some will call this attitude Puritanical, a word that sounds nastier than it should, and will boldly defend students’ “right”—the most overused word of the 20th century—to do whatever they want whenever they want to.But I’m more inclined to agree with what the ethicist Peter Lawler has written, that our loss of Puritanism “has exacted a real erotic cost. A genuine 17th-century Puritan man who caught...
...house has a genuinely lived-in feel, that's because its mastermind, the eccentric American artist Dennis Severs, resided here from 1979 until his death in 1999 as its historic inhabitants would have - without heat, electricity or running water. The California-born Severs shunned the 20th century, but by turning a dilapidated house into an artistic project he managed to bring the past back to life. His dream, he said, was for visitors to feel as though they had stepped into a painting. Fellow artists believe he succeeded; David Hockney called 18 Folgate Street "stunning," and actors regularly visit...
...consistently rebuffed questioners who complained about the current state of classical composition as a whole. "There is a lot of wonderful contemporary music, and the element of individual taste…is just as important in the 20th century as it has been in the 18th and 19th centuries," he said. But, true to form, Barenboim didn’t confine himself to discussion of music. Criticizing American cultural exceptionalism, he jokingly made a formal appeal "for the name of this country to be changed to what it really is: The United States of Central North America...
...Damon, and is produced by Brad Pitt, there are high expectations all around. “The Departed” meets them eye to eye.The past few years have been a curious time for Scorsese. He has long been known as one of the finest American directors of the 20th century, but his last two efforts—the lackluster passion project “Gangs of New York” and the good-but-not-great “The Aviator”—lacked the movie magic of his classics “Taxi Driver?...