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...yards per rush) and receiver John Hyland (second in the league to Pennsylvania's Miles Macik), the Big Green is back on track--defeating Yale 31-14 and coming from behind to defeat Cornell, 28-27. The defense is equally strong: led by co-captain inside linebacker Josh Bloom, it has allowed just 104.5 yards per game on the ground and 184.1 through...
...thing, the collapse of the musically totalitarian 12-tone system has enabled a thousand melodic flowers to bloom. No longer do the words contemporary music mean two hours of agonistic screaming and clangorous orchestral Klangfarbenmelodie. For another, audiences raised on show-biz special effects demand large-scale spectacle, and innovative opera producers have risen to the challenge; not since the days of Meyerbeer at the Paris Opera have set design and direction loomed so large...
That, I found out, is the attraction of Brattle Square Florist Shop. It pleases everyone, from the most serious horticulturalist to the flower novice who just wants to see life bloom on his or her desk every day during the cold winter months...
...Allan Bloom once described a man who had just gotten out of prison, where he had undergone "therapy." "He said he had found his identity and learned to like himself," writes Bloom. "A generation earlier, he would have found God and learned to despise himself as a sinner...
That's a hard one? Reflecting on the man who learned to like himself in prison, Bloom notes that in the mind of this ex-con, "the problem lay with his sense of self, not with any original sin or devils in him. We have here the peculiarly American way of digesting Continental despair. It is nihilism with a happy ending...