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Other undergrads expect each other to have positions on every major domestic policy issue, on local elections, on University policy, and on all of U.S. international relations 1759 to present, all major orchestral works and literature from Beowulf on (especially Joyce, Eliot, Freud). This puts me in a difficult position. On the one hand, I want to be able to participate in such debates and discussions. Like everyone else, I want to know what I believe in. I want thus to open the possibility of my acting on my opinions, and speaking about them clearly...
...Offal— n. Middle English. The viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal that is often considered inedible by humans. At high-end restaurants such as No. 9, talented chefs turn this refuse into delicacy. i.e: Beowulf scoffed at his plebeian dining partner, Roxette, when she refused to so much as taste the offal...
Since The Catcher in the Rye (or perhaps Beowulf), high school kids have loved to rail against phonies. Rappers and rockers know this and sell themselves to teens by talking about how "real" they are. But recent teen-pop acts like Britney Spears made their fortunes off even younger audiences who craved fantasy figures. Authenticity be damned--stylists picked their sex-bomb outfits, choreographers gave them graceful routines, songwriters wrote their PG-13 come-ons. So it wasn't surprising that last year, when the fans of teen pop hit Holden Caulfield's age, its sales dropped about...
...name given to a charming character in the book, later attached to the writer as a joke or compliment that stuck. Shikibu is the name of an office the character's father once held.) The English-language equivalent for the general linguistic distance would be something like Beowulf, recently translated by Seamus Heaney, but the very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding dragons, but only the eternity of desire and the fading of youth. When characters wish to express their deepest thoughts, they exchange poems, paying consummate attention to every...
Hessler and his one American colleague are the first foreigners seen in Fuling in 50 years: they get catcalls in the streets, their mail is opened and censored, and what they teach in class--Beowulf, Hamlet, a ballad about Robin Hood--is strictly vetted by local party officials. Yet in private, people open up to Hessler about their marital difficulties, dislike of party control, career plans and all the other complexities of their everyday lives...