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Richard C. Marius, senior lecturer on English, reminds us that "human beings are incomplete unless they can stare out windows, seeing a world beyond what the eye can behold." Speeding along the highway between downtown offices and suburban homes, living in rooms with incredible views, we will be sheltered from America's latent racism, sexism, homophobia, poverty and moral uncertainty. It's really there. And unless we remember that many among us live sad lives of quiet desperation--and that we are who we are because someone loved us, cared for us and lent us a guiding hand--then...
...early American Modernists were concerned, sometimes obsessed, with rendering peculiarly American experience. Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was fascinated by the blaring contrasts of signs and numbers on the new urban surface; John Marin (1870-1953) believed that "you cannot create a work of art unless the things you behold respond to something within you...Thus the whole city is alive." Of course, the greatest Modernist work of art in New York was the city itself: its impaction, strangeness, clamorous variety and scary dynamism--and rising from these, its magic. No Manhattan tower expressed all that better than the Chrysler Building...
...tuition for their children, it's an issue. It is ironic that just a few years ago, when Generation Xers complained about their student loans, they were branded as whiners. Back in the '80s, financial-aid officers persuaded us not to worry; the "investment" would pay off. Lo and behold, after an era of corporate downsizing, our educations have become a form of indenture. College graduates matriculate to live at home; families and mortgages have been postponed. I'm disappointed that none of the $50 billion in recent legislative proposals include any amnesty for existing college debt. JERRY VYE Glencoe...
...great run, and a fun one to behold. But the team hardly became better for the experience, and in the five postseasons since they haven't even made it as far as the Conference Finals...
Like "Gump," "Sling Blade" creates a fascinating protagonist but never fully decides what to do with him. Thornton is nonetheless a wonder to behold in the role, the rare actor who turns obvious mannerisms into a palpable personality. Karl ends all of his sentences with a guttural self-affirmation ("I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody, mmmhmmm") as though all of his statements contained a deeper truth that he alone fully appreciates...