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...regrettable phrase "in the age of James Frey." Moratorium? Who's with me?) It's not the least of its sins, but it has to be said that the Times list is aggressively boring. I was surprised and pleased - like running into a dear friend at a deadly dull cocktail party - to see Edward P. Jones's The Known World, which won the Pulitzer in 2004, make an appearance, but otherwise it's a very staid, predictable, old, white (except for Morrison and Jones), and male (except for Morrison and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping) bunch. No surprise extra-canonical incursions...
...from $145 to $250.In past years, the upscale charity event has just broken even, but organizers hope to do better this year.HORSE LEISURE When they’re not watching the ball, the spectators will tailgate in elegance. The men will come in jackets and ties; the ladies in cocktail garden party attire.“They’ll bring lovely picnic baskets and set up their lunch and eat on the grass,” says Kirsten Lewis, manager of the Polo Club. “People get very enthralled in these matches. There’s cheering...
...richest masterpieces of the Western literary canon are thoroughly infused with Biblical and mythological language. If Homer had better legal representation, would James Joyce’s Ulysses have ever been published? Intertextuality isn’t just a word that literature majors throw around at their swank cocktail parties—it’s a fundamental attribute of creative expression.Even in an age when copyright terms have been extended to absurd lengths in order to keep Mickey Mouse locked up and proprietary, there is a viable movement of people who question the balkanization of artistic expression. Lawrence Lessig...
...leak a real secret about the prisons, for example. I ran into all sorts of journalists, and I usually said I was whatever my cover was. But you were not obligated to write back and say, "I ran into X journalist in Damascus, and we were at a cocktail party, and we are going to get together for lunch." It was not something you had to report. Unauthorized contact with a journalist is a new standard. You cannot be assigned overseas and not run into a U.S. journalist. You're just completely isolating the CIA. You use journalists...
...low.Some have also chosen to draw broader conclusions from this situation by linking it to the dog-eat-dog, rat-racing, ladder-climbing, and corner-cutting mentality of Harvard students. Others have related it to the stressful nature of college admissions, and still others have blamed a cocktail of overzealous parents and intense pressure. But such extrapolation should be braved with caution. Viswanathan is but one student among 6,500 undergraduates, and our knowledge of the details of her transgression is still limited and partially speculative. What is clear, however, is that Harvard is neither a city on a hill...