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Want to change values? Change government, the 800-lb. gorilla whose sheer bulk and reach powerfully influence private conduct. Government, after all, is the business of politicians. Preaching is best left to the clergy. They have the practice and the standing...
Bloom does not really expect his Common Readers to master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers...
...ugly snapshots from Port-au-Prince did not convey the full picture of the occupation. Despite chaos in the streets, U.S. troops secured one objective after another with clocklike precision. On Monday, as Clinton announced he was lifting the bulk of the U.S. economic sanctions, American MPs moved into five of the capital's most notorious police precincts. That same day, the Coast Guard returned the first installment of what is hoped will be a reverse wave of returning refugees. Then on Tuesday, U.S. forces secured Haiti's simple white parliament building, reopening it to its democratically elected legislators...
Since the building's construction, the Law School has been searching for a donor who would cover the bulk of the cost. The new edifice came with a price tag of "a little more than $13 million," said Dean Robert C. Clark...
Other incisive comments are not uncommon at intermissions of shows so personally and structually confusing as musicals. The American Reportory Theatre has managed to convert the house into a two-hour Jewish cultural festival where audience participation is not always discouraged Food and oversized breasts constitute the bulk of jokes slipping in and out of the black gowns, car curls and flowing flower print dresses. The band regularly moves from pit to stage to take part in the theatrics just like the cabaret sister it aspires to be deep down inside. Rythmic clapping and footstomping will not seem...