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...political stance, he chose an inappropriate tone for a discussion on “American values.” The response relegated a popular governor’s opinions to the wilderness of unworthy words and offered no counterpoints to Pawlenty’s take on the country??s moral path...
...worst track, Oberst attempts to weave a forced narrative—something about heroin and Aztec gold—over a clichéd, country backing track that sounds like something from a bad karaoke machine.Between these two, unfortunate extremes—uninspired classic rock and trite country??lies the heart of the album. Oberst redeems himself with “Ahead of the Curve,” a powerful number built around a memorable acoustic guitar riff that tastefully expands into a full-band number. A more restrained Oberst recalls his best work as Bright Eyes, filling...
...hesitancy makes sense. For a handful of chosen ones to walk among us with a greater potential to create things of worth doesn’t mesh terribly well with our country??s democratic values, after all. New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell tapped into just this everyman conception of genius in last year’s bestselling pop science book, “Outliers.” Reaching the top levels of a chosen field, he explained, simply requires a combination of hard work and luck—with a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice, anyone...
Harvard’s once small collection of film stills—movie frames studied by film historians—is slowly ballooning into one of the country??s ten largest, thanks to a gift from a pair of German collectors. Munich-based couple Lothar and Eva Just are now in the process of donating their estimated 800,000-piece collection to the Harvard Film Archive. So far, the HFA has received over 42,600 items in the collection, which will take an estimated five years to arrive and catalog, according to Film Conservator Elizabeth Coffey...
...This newspaper agrees: Conservatives bash alternative lifestyles to win votes. “For close to a decade, the Republican Party has gotten considerable mileage out of a narrative of cultural conflict that pits a snobbish, educated, costal [sic] elite against the hard-working, god-fearing denizens of the country??s heartland,” The Crimson wailed in an editorial, “The Wrong War,” on September...