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...Western interlopers. His writing is swift, often poetic, unerringly exact with voices and subtle details of time, weather and place. This novel is so complete a distillation of its theme and characters that it leaves a reader wondering how on earth Phillips can follow it up...This brilliant book seems certain to be widely and admiringly reviewed...the most memorable fiction debut of the year to date...
There was a brilliant, if gimmicky, solution: a synchronized series of looped video animations projected onto a wide screen quickly became the center of attention, and the music its soundtrack. It conveyed something that’s impossible to discern in Takemura’s albums. If Calix’s glitch symphonies were ones and zeros come alive, Takemura’s playful sonic freak-outs were the machines themselves speaking. Blocky polygon men sang along with the disembodied voices; kids frolicked with pixelated woodland creatures during musical lulls. Seemingly senseless static became a conversation between two clay figurines...
Faust, who has publicly stated her desire for a female candidate to fill both the GSE post and the still-vacant Divinity School deanship, described the appointment of Lagemeann as “brilliant...
...aggressive race, not particularly brilliant, but enough to beat them this week,” sophomore stroke Laura Spence said. “We led the first varsity boat off the start and pulled away in the sprint. We were roughly bow to stern [with them] for most of the race. I don’t think the [second varsity boat] finished the race. I don’t know because we were too far ahead...
...discourse palatable to the mass public with his radically-democratic prophetic voice. Rather than being praised for his overarching civic concern, West unfairly became the target of insult. The tragic irony is that faculty, students and colleagues hold West with utmost respect for his intellectual stature, compassionate character and brilliant insights. West empowers diverse and marginalized communities that traditionally are not privy to the rhetoric reserved for those within ivory towers. West ends his song with a challenge for professors, among others, to be on the front line...