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...insightful recipe for literature, enchanting in its simplicity.Wood is both a critic and a professor, and it shows: his prose, easy and approachable, reads like the transcript of an English class held around a pot of hot cocoa in Lamont Cafe. To ensure the reader’s comfort, Wood shies away from literary terminology, though more technical criticism lurks in the lengthy footnotes.When describing fruitful passages, Wood frequently interrupts himself with his own enthusiasm—“What a piece of writing this is!” or “What an amazingly blasphemous little...
...don’t like jeans. Call me unpatriotic, but when Levi Strauss invented the blue jean, I don’t think comfort was at the front of his mind. Being a history concentrator, I’m going to bring some historical perspective into this. When Straus conceived of his good old Levi’s during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, his reasons were purely practical: to provide sturdy protection for the legs of gold miners. These days, the closest contact with gold I have is the sprinkling of edible gold leaf on my chocolate...
...pleasant enough; it’s just that save for a few, nothing stands out. It’s when compared with the rest of Kings of Leon’s corpus that “Night” really falls short. It’s like getting Southern Comfort when you ordered Moonshine—sugary, weak, and not at all what you were hoping for. Other than “Sex on Fire,” there are relatively few songs that really grab your attention (unless you count the slightly disturbing grunts featured...
...tide has gone out very fast in the past few days - and it's exposing some stark truths: a worrying number of banks are overstretched or have taken outsized risks, and the system of banking regulation that is supposed to watch over them is too narrowly focused for comfort...
...several swing states where he led after his convention, and has relinquished some gains he had made with independents and women voters. Like so many times before, McCain finds himself in a crisis situation, facing an uphill battle for the prize he has always sought. This is his political comfort zone. The betting money says he will make a bold move, and hope it doesn't backfire...