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...Only connect the prose and the passion," wrote British novelist E.M. Forster, "and both will be exalted." Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, does, and they are. Beautifully written, it is - like her debut best seller White Teeth - essentially a story about families, expansive enough to encompass questions of race, Rembrandt, aging gracefully (or not), love, fidelity and, as the title suggests, recognizing what is truly beautiful and how we make it a part of our lives. Smith, as she makes clear in her acknowledgments, is indebted to Forster for more than good advice. On Beauty is a rambunctious...
...that although they missed John Paul II and the fervent devotion he inspired, they want to give Benedict a chance I read with interest your articles on Benedict XVI's papacy and the Roman Catholic youth movement [Aug. 15]. The report on attempts by conservative Catholic lay groups to connect with young Europeans noted that it is not clear how many people "revered John Paul's austere message as much as the man himself." The quote from Karl Cardinal Lehmann of Germany, who said, "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the Pill in their...
...Coriolanus onstage--conflated with his public persona. As for the public part, Fiennes doesn't give his fans much news to play with. He is divorced from actress Alex Kingston (ER) and has lived for a decade with actress Francesca Annis, 18 years his senior. He refuses to connect any dots between his roles and himself. And he rarely uses his fame as a bully pulpit; he marched against the Iraq invasion but anonymously, with a group of friends...
...executive, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He is jealous of his friends who are sure of what they want to do post-college, and he hopes no one noticed the weird mixed metaphor in his postcard’s last sentence. Expos taught him to try to connect his titles with his conclusions...
...connect the MP3 player to your PC and look at the tracks. If you want, you can edit their tags with a music jukebox program like iTunes or Windows Media Player. More likely, you'd go the other way around: rip the CDs in MP3 format and then drag them over to the MP3 player. This defeats the purpose of the stereo...