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Daniel G. Appel '98 raised the guard's suspicion as he left the Coop bookstore annex because he wasn't carrying his purchase in a bag. The guard asked for his receipt, but Appel said he didn't understand him, and fled the scene. The guard, whose name was not released, tackled Appel and handcuffed...
Some students said it was a pretty sober holiday weekend. "The wildest alcohol-related activity of which I've partaken this weekend was a healthy does of rum-butterscotch topping on my ice cream at Herrell's," joked Daniel G. Appel...
...Appel also criticizes postmodernism, which he accuses of fostering a particularly nasty brand of cynicism. Something has gone awry, he writes, when our media-induced cynicism spreads to the degree that "we find ourselves blinking with astonishment and perhaps shame at the televised spectacle of dissident Chinese students carrying a twenty-foot-high paper-mache statue of Miss Liberty in Beijing's Tienanmen Square, and dying for it a few days later...
...Appel, a professor of English and American Culture at Northwestern University, makes his points digestible by dividing the 231-page book into 41 minichapters ideally suited for the undergraduate attention span. Although his survey format is somewhat arbitrary, Appel's arguments do cohere...
Occasionally, The Art of Celebration becomes a bit precious, like when Appel asks, "Do the people who collect classic modern plates ever actually use them? Does one's use of the rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about dishware? Why doesn't the Design Collection have any beer mugs on display? Is the form art-proof by definition? Is some wine-bound snobbery at work, even in utopia?" But you forgive the prof, `cause, ya know, this education thing is an uphill climb. A spoonful of sugar helps...