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...publisher, while bemoaning the current lack of serious and talented writers in the “man of letters” category, admitted, “There are brilliant writers—Louis Menand is perhaps the all-around best.” A staff writer at The New Yorker and Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Menand’s Metaphysical Club is a triumph of intelligent writing. He addresses a set of divinely elegant themes that speak to the very essence of what so many of us either take...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reading. Period. | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...Bruno was educated at Westminster School in London, then at Harvard University in America. He studied English, which at that time, the dying days of postmodernism, meant scouring the canon for coded references to genitalia and despite wildly inconsistent grades he was finally hailed as brilliant for his senior thesis on the use of adjectives in restaurant menus.” I suspect Maddox himself had a hand in writing that; publicists usually aren’t that irreverent...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reading. Period. | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...TIME: Everybody used to think the keiretsu system was a brilliant business model. Not anymore. Why? Ghosn: The keiretsu system can be very effective if it is performance-driven, if you develop strong cross functionality. If it becomes a tradition, a cozy way of doing business, then you're lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Managing to win | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

BOOK Madame Bovary. "Both a great page-turner and a brilliant portrait of the workings of human nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enthusiasms: Apr. 30, 2001 | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...have always known, the beauty of repetition comes from slight variations and shifts that sometimes don’t even register on the conscious mind. This Couch do to perfection—there are combinatorial variations of arrangements and melodies and just enough crafty developments to keep songs captivating. Brilliant stuff...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, Sarah N. Kunz, and Josiah J. Madigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Albums | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

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