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...mention all this because, as I begin this reading period, the calendar reads 2001. A semester from now, I will graduate from Harvard (assuming the thesis and the last Core course chug along fine). Next year, I will not have this knowledge-gathering period, this peculiar pause when there is much to be learned--about friends, out-of-the-way places, and what will stick with you years from now. College itself is a vacation, a chance to take a long view and get immersed in a subject in a way few jobs allow. To my pleasant surprise...
Minimalism's master entrepreneur is up to his Fifth Symphony, a multicultural choral fresco on spiritual texts, newly recorded by Dennis Russell Davies and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Like all Glass's other pieces, it consists of the chug-chug repetition of slowly shifting harmonies, ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Alas, what sounded fresh (or at least different) 20 years ago is now as agonizingly familiar as a Hemingway parody. Same old same old same old same...
...name of the game is beer pong, which features two players, each trying to hit a ping pong ball into his opponentis cup. If a ball lands in the beer, the loser has to chug as fast as humanly possible. Generally, once a player starts drinking, his coordination suffers all the more, and he just keeps right on losing. But Brinton actually gets better as play continues...
...Sometime in the late nineties the train picked up speed. It was powered by extreme cynicism and quite a bit of BOLD text. Chugga chug...
...upcoming presidential race continues to chug along, hauling a couple of stiff-necked Democrats and a slightly more colorful mix of Republican contenders. And for the most part, it has been a two-car train. The Reform Party--that alternative caboose that rode so visibly in 1992 and 1996--has been conspicuously lagging behind...