Word: beautyful
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“No,” I breathed, disbelieving, tracing her glance to the book on my table, Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.
If Harvard didn’t leave a mark on Smith’s Wellington, it did shape the novel’s trajectory. She quotes Professor of English Elaine Scarry’s essay “On Beauty and Being Just” in a section opener: ?...
But the carnality doesn’t redeem “On Beauty,” and her political message drowns out the story. Smith, like Howard, dwells on the theoretical, often for too long. In her ambition, she weighs down her novel with a little social commentary and a...
Still recovering from her final sentence, one of those constructions meant to recall possibility and beauty and humanity all at once, I flipped through the blank excess sheets, and thought, it’s a good thing Kate the waitress hasn’t read this yet.
And while the differences between the two freshmen extend even as far as their favorite Disney movies—“The Little Mermaid” for Mays, “Beauty and the Beast” for McKinley—neither can imagine a life without volleyball.