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...Chicago, Bloom unleashed a storm of criticism last year with his book, The Closing of the American Mind, an acidic assault on the way the U.S. educates its young people and on the decline of intellectuality in national life. Liberal academics, defending the trend toward de-emphasis of the classics, responded that Bloom's prescriptions are unsuited to a society as heterogeneous as America's. The book has sold 800,000 copies and has just been issued in paperback. TIME senior correspondent William McWhirter spent four hours with Bloom, 58, surrounded by classic texts and European oil paintings...
Bull, I say. I know a little bit about game theory—thanks Dave—and this is the classic prisoner’s dilemma argument: you can’t quit if other people won’t. But guess what? You’re not prisoners, you can talk to each other. Cultures change when people decide to change them...
...sense, the piece was unexpectedly out-of-place in Sanders Theatre. Stravinsky’s love of atonality and radical rhythms made Sanders Theatre’s vaulted ceiling, traditional baroque chandelier, and classic statues seem anachronistic. However, the academic atmosphere of the auditorium—it doubles as a classroom—was a very appropriate setting for the performance and seemed to enhance Stravinsky’s notoriously mathematical approach to musical composition...
...suburban London home. In the corner are three electric guitars, a reminder of his early, failed ambition to be a rock star. "My writing style is quite minimalist on the surface, with hints of conflict or tension tucked away," he says. "That's something I have in common with classic Japanese settings. It's like a typical, old-fashioned Japanese house; it seems bare, but open a cupboard and all kinds of weird things come tumbling out." Weird things, indeed. In Never Let Me Go, teachers at an English boarding school in the late 1960s constantly tell the children that...
...West Canaan, there is a charmingly insular community of lifelong neighbors. There are green, well-tended lawns incubated by the steam of scorching Texas summers. There are pick-up trucks, convivial barbeques, and white, rustic houses. Framed by dusty roads, they all evoke the calming pastorale of classic Americana...