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...past, the question of what beckoned after college seemed pleasantly abstract, and prying, if well-meaning, family friends could always be fobbed off with the response, “Well, I’m hoping to catch up on four years’ worth of sleep and then I’ll go from there.” Towards the end of this summer, though, that answer started to sound trite, and instead of appearing agreeably flexible, I began to look disagreeably lazy. So now, like at least a quarter of the students at Harvard, I have to start thinking...
Perhaps. But seconds later Andre adds, "I'm trying to find my way out of music. I'm sick of it, man. When you're in a group, you constantly have to compromise ... It's real stressful." Andre's specific gripe is that he would like to make more-abstract music, like his hero, John Coltrane, but he believes that neither Big Boi nor his audience will tolerate it. There are other rifts as well. After his role in Hollywood Homicide, Andre wants to develop an acting career. And he refuses to tour. Instead, he would like to enroll...
Dabrye’s “Making It Pay” sets the stage in shades of grey, a slice of abstract hip-hop whose pulverizing bassline and stainless snares sound more computerized than crunk. But soon the album’s pulled in opposite directions by tracks like Charles Manier’s “At The Bottle” (whose post-Kraftwerk synths and four-on-the-floor thump sound made for anime dancefloors) and a Telefon Tel Aviv rework of Midwest Product’s “A Genuine Display...
...problem, posed in 1990 when little Ganatra was just learning his fractions, asked whether or not one light ray could escape from any configuration of circular mirrors in a plane. Ganatra’s solution is particularly astounding in its appeal to topology—the study of the abstract shape of space—because it constituted a novel, creative approach to the problem. His fresh solution has opened doors for further research and has practical implications for the study of illumination and acoustics...
Anti-Americanism suddenly attained a new political function as a source of unity through othering. While it still remains unclear what concrete commonality Danes and Greeks share in their daily lives—and anchors their abstract notion of being “European”—they are both very tangibly not American. The Bush Administration’s policies, especially in the war against Iraq, have helped Europeans a great deal in legitimizing this abstraction...