Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with one-word or one-phrase choruses ("Spitfire," "Sunday") slide into my head and won't let go; the songs with more complicated lyrical setups ("Noelle, Jonah and Me") actually have to be deciphered, but it's worth it. The Spinanes have something to say about restraint, about the blank spaces--in a band, in a life, in a romance--that pop up where you expect music, or words, or approval, or love, to be; anyone who thinks pop music can't be emotionally subtle needs to hear this record yesterday. Lately its less hummable songs have been reminding...
...Harvard students who voted in the Cambridge election last week gave their City Council votes to candidates with a Harvard connection--and turned in more than their share of blank ballots for School Committee...
...while only one of the 92 ballots for City Council cast at Quincy House was declared invalid--meaning that it was improperly filled out or blank--17 of the School Committee ballots were invalid. In the city as a whole, there were about three times as many invalid school committee ballots as invalid City Council ballots...
Henry B. Adams '58 (1858, that is), in The Education of Henry Adams, described his time here like this: "The school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a water-mark had been stamped...It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile...
...characters in the stories, Europe is a new world, and they become conquistadors of a sort, discovering the people who "discovered" them. Garcia Marquez orchestrates this series of reversals with wry wit and irony. Latin American intellecutals have long remarked that for Europeans the Americas were a sort of blank page on which they could write what they dreamt of and needed and imagined. America was a utopia which they tried to possess and in which they tried to create a different version of Europe. And America was also a wilderness, a primeval and dangerous territory which could swallow...