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...report so proudly explains, “general education prepares students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society.” Indeed, such citizenship, as abstract and nebulous as laid out by the report, can claim no “utility” or “relevance” commensurate to those positions at investment banks and consulting firms filled every year by numerous Harvard graduates...
...relationship between form and representation. “Fernand Léger: Contrast of Forms,” on display at the Fogg Art Museum from April 14 through June 10, offers a rare look at the stylistic evolution of this seminal artist as he moved from pure abstraction to representation. The exhibit is notable for featuring Léger’s early, very rare, and more purely Cubist work produced between 1912 and 1914. Filling just two rooms, the tightly focused collection doesn’t overwhelm the viewer or distract from the works themselves. One room holds...
...show deference to any institution - the BBC, the labor unions, the professions - you had undermined them all. If deference to the established order was so bad, why show it (for example) to the monarchy? Moreover - really for the first time in British politics - Thatcher placed market values, not abstract ones of duty and honor, at the heart of a social definition of success. In the 1980s, if you didn't make money (loadsamoney ... ), if you didn't cash in on your talents or luck, then you were worse than an idiot - you were somehow letting the side down...
Videt also amplifies the more abstract aspects of the play, often to great effect. For instance, people around Lucie often repeat a few gestures mechanistically, leaving the main characters as the only ones who really move and see. On the other hand, this directorial choice can also result in a lack of clarity: When Jean relates an anecdote about Lucie going fishing in a booming, portentous voice that—if read on the page—would seem much more lighthearted, it seems like the acting has more to do with creating a general mood and less...
...Literature is concerned with stories of individuals whereas social sciences try to speak in abstract. It’s easy to speak that way to an abstract country, but we live in one with a proper name. I would like to restore the understanding of the proper name to the understanding of politics,” Mansfield said...