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...economy of style: it knows how much can be shown in a shot, how much can be said in a few words. But the picture was a harbinger too. If Lawrence was the last colonial God-man, he was also the movie epic's first moody hero, father to countless sacred screen madmen. And in the picture's political wrangling and massacre scenes, we see hints of American history in the late '60s and American movies today: a preview of Viet Nam and a prequel to Platoon...
...hatred, violence and brutality of this incident speaks for itself. We must guard ourselves against the temptation to dismiss such an incident as an aberration resulting from an extreme person, a rare happening, or the work of a lunatic. The fact is that this incident is not different from countless others being reported in colleges throughout the nation. This incident signals in no uncertain terms the reality of racism which permates society today. It is a painful, shameful and destructive reality from which the Harvard community is not protected. It is a reality which we can change only...
Hopefully none of us will be put in such an uncompromising situation but, in this day of books calling for academic institutions to help students become culturally literate, forcing countless Harvard students to miss what over half the United States saw yesterday doesn't make them any more in tune with what American culture is about...
Even the mass extinctions 65 million years ago that killed off the dinosaurs and countless other species did not significantly affect flowering plants, according to Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. But these plant species are disappearing now, and people, not comets or volcanoes, are the angels of destruction. Moreover, the earth is suffering the decline of entire ecosystems -- the nurseries of new life-forms. For that reason, Wilson deems this crisis the "death of birth." British ecologist Norman Myers has called it the "greatest single setback to life's abundance and diversity since the first flickerings of life almost 4 billion...
...numb unawareness. Rather than be wistful for the life that is no longer, or never was, we should be open and venturesome in the time we have. The message is simplicity itself, yet its wisdom is so powerful that it has been echoed -- if never improved upon -- in countless sermons and self-help books...