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...Plath assumes the role of a bunny strangled by wire snares set by a man with whom she has a "relationship." "The Other," a poem about infidelity, begins with the line "You come in late, wiping your lips"--an opening-bell knockout. Rarely is the façade of marital bliss shown up so bleakly as in "The Detective": "This is the smell of years burning, here in the kitchen/ These are the deceits, tacked up like family photographs,/ And this is a man, look at his smile." These are powerful poems, not outtakes and B sides, and if they expose...
...elitist, antisocial device that provokes the kind of class divisions of which only Karl Marx would approve. The campus is already divided between the conversation-loving proletariat and the expanding bourgeoisie who choose to forego all verbal communication with fellow students and withdraw entirely into the acoustic bliss of the iPod, or some inferior substitute. Don’t join the ranks of the latter...
John Womack Jr. ’59, the Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, noted in an e-mail that prominent Jews—including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt—made the same comparison to Nazism in 1948 when they denounced the Herut Party, the predecessor to current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud bloc...
They’ve done a lot of studies about being second best. Silver medalists in the Olympics aren’t happy campers. And neither am I. Princeton’s happy though. Ignorance is bliss...
Matrimonial Bliss...