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...faculty, a divide is growing among its literary and social critics. On one side, there stand those who see pop culture artifacts as valid objects of inquiry. On the other side, there stand profs who fear a collapse toward the bottom of the barrel.THE GREAT EQUALIZERSMenand, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, says that he put the George Lucas movie on his syllabus not because of its intrinsic artistic value, but because of its social context. “ ‘Star Wars’ is an important movie in the history of movie making...
...Twenty years ago I did Saturday Night Live in New York, and the bass player Tony gave me a cassette tape from a guy named Ned Sublette, and it was a song called Cowboys are Frequently Secretly (Fond of Each Other). And I thought it was the funniest goddamn song I'd ever heard. I had it on the bus for 20 years, and people would come in and I'd play it. When Brokeback come out, it just seemed like a good time to kick it out of the closet...
...times, but his condescending tone turns “But you’s a scary dude / Believed by very few” from good to “Oh, shit!” And the beat is downright epic. DJ Toomp delivers the marching strings and gut-rumbling bass synth to produce the kind of track you’ve always wanted to hear play when you walk into rooms. Fitting that such a brazenly cinematic song should be used to sell a movie...
Another of “Mimi’s” standout songs, “Circles,” expands upon “Mine Again’s” soul aesthetic. The song beings with a driving electric piano riff; a pulsating bass line kicks in soon after; and a cadre of background singers harmonize nicely while Mariah tears into the lyrics like a latter-day Aretha Franklin...
...final interview was held in the Presidential Suite of the Boston Harbor Hotel.FROM ONE TO THE OTHERWhile the length of Summers’ tenure—the shortest since the Civil War—might be unusual, the onslaught of criticism at its close is by no means unique. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand recalls controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty years later, a lack of structure in the curriculum led to his ouster. His successor?...