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...know only one language, basically you don't know any language at all: since you can't imagine that your own cunning little world has a boundary, the idea of stepping beyond it seems nonsensical, and so you can't begin to fathom the existence of other worlds. Her apt application of this metaphor to the experience of religion, though, finds a more comfortable home in our minds than in our collective stomach lining. No one would dispute the value of our all being in this place together in order that our knowledge should be shaped by the knowledge...
...student opinions because of three factors. Students coming to Harvard made their choices for many reasons, the dominant being the opportunities offered by Harvard. Harvard's attention to student input is not relevant to most incoming students, and information on it may be hard to gather. College choice is apt to be "sticky": transfers are available only in the first and second year of college, and are hard to manage. Thus college choices tend to be irreversible, and the competition between schools is not expected to behave as a free market after the senior year of high school. Finally, much...
...sculpture in Bucharest before reaching Paris, almost penniless, in 1904. He even worked briefly as a studio menial for Auguste Rodin before quitting in the realization that, as he later put it, nothing grows under great trees. Throughout his life, legends stuck to Brancusi like burrs; he was apt to be seen as a peasant sage, a Carpathian exotic (to most Parisians, Romania barely qualified as part of Europe). And he seemed even more of an original to American collectors, who, fervently egged on by Marcel Duchamp, were his chief support...
Like so many of the plays of its era, Holiday today seems an unsettled mixture of the proudly naughty and the primly didactic; when the women aren't smoking, they're apt to be decrying various social ills. This new production likewise straddles two worlds: the here and now, a place in which uncommitted young people marvel uneasily as their elders assemble astonishing fortunes; and the there and then, a zone where Cary and Kate banter toward a luminous happy-ever-after...
...academia? A metaphor for the Holocaust? You're not quite sure afterwards--nor perhaps, are you supposed to be. Forgacs and Dunogue have captured the spirit of The Lesson--part comedy, part human tragedy, all absurdity--and given audiences a treat. The performances are excellent and the direction apt. "The Lesson" leaves you wondering, but it also leaves you entertained...