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Colescott began his career as an abstract artist. In 1949, at a fairly young age, he left the United States for Paris to study with Fernand Leger, who was by that time working in quite a representational manner. Leger convinced Colescott that abstraction was not the most effective means of communicating to people. Colescott eagerly adopted Leger's more figurative style in an effort to attract his attention...
...dishes/Who'll do the crying when all the wishes don't come true?" Springsteen must have intended for the listener to sense a deep, realistic optimism at the core of Springsteen's famous hard-luck pessimism: instead, he sounds like a musical Danielle Steele, chronicling the middle-age discovery of true joy in a tainted world: "Happy/With you in my arms/Happy/With you in my heart." It is not that contemporary music requires intelligent lyrics to be successful, but if the lyrics go unaccompanied by powerful music, they might at least avoid offending the listener...
Ultimately, the performance had an overall fairy tale-like atmosphere amply reinforced by the bright, pastel set, as well as the lovely Gilded Age costumes by designer Jana Howland. Maybe Where's Charley is an oldie, but it definitely is still a goodie...
Maybe those program managers never heard of a guy named Jordan. The black basketball player is the dominant image of African Americans in the media. And now that he is no longer playing basketball, perhaps some light can finally be shed on the age-old question of whether his dominance is good for black America...
...final determinant in many Harvard students' choice of a business career is the pursuit of excellence. Every age is remembered, if it is remembered at all, for excellence along a certain dimension. We might remember the Romans for their military might, the Renaissance for its superlative art and architecture, the Enlightenment for its philosophy. A millenium hence, the only thing for which our American century will be remembered (with the possible exception of theoretical scientific advances in atomic physics and molecular biology) is the perfecting of a nuanced, sophisticated capitalist business system that has lifted large masses of humankind...