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...Messner, BFF’s much-anticipated third release, it was clear that Folds was beginning to move in a different musical direction. Lush instrumentals, epic string arrangements and sweeping synthesizers replaced the fun, hook-filled albums of the past as the band ventured into their most ambitious and adult project. Dealing with death, depression, divorce and emotional numbness, Folds used the character of Messner (who, unbeknownst to Folds was in fact a legendary mountain climber) as a personal foil on the semi-autobiographical album. It was an unapologetic masterpiece, with Folds finally declaring on “Mess?...
...words I read this past week, the ones that stuck with me were from Mr. Rogers, as quoted in last Friday's Wall Street Journal. Fred, who recently retired from the Neighborhood after educating and counseling kids for generations, was asked a series of questions regarding what an adult might tell a child regarding the attack. Mr. Rogers urged parents and caregivers to keep to familiar routines, limit children's TV viewing, redirect play toward "caring and nurturing themes...like making a pretend meal for the emergency helpers...
...even that I couldn’t really be gay since, in a pre-interview with my parents, my dad had at one point interrupted my mom—thus proving that he wasn’t the weak, submissive father that a homosexual ought to have. Adult gays usually lived shallow, unfulfilling, empty lives—but if I wanted, he said, I could change. I tried to argue, but as a middle-schooler I was no match for a licensed psychologist three times my age. Riding home in the car, I couldn’t control my sobs...
When Bobby receives an adult library card for his eleventh birthday instead of the cherry red Schwinn bicycle he has been dreaming of, he is at first disappointed. He knows his mother (Hope Davis) complains about money (his gambling addicted father died leaving nothing but bills), but he had hoped that perhaps she’d find a way to give him his present anyway. But soon, a mysterious stranger (Hopkins), who introduces himself as Ted Braughtigan, moves in upstairs and offers to pay Bobby a dollar a week to read the newspaper aloud to him and to watch...
...Harvard Extension School in pursuit of their undergraduate degrees, day to day life can sometimes be a test of strength. As Mark S. Ouchida, the Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Degree Program in Extension points out, the Extension School, founded in 1909 for the evening enrichment of working adults, today serves as “an excellent alternative for students who don’t have the luxury of not having to work.” For students like Vaghar, who put themselves through school, all the working leaves them in an interesting position—in a sort...