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MOVING ON This week TIME's pop-music critic, Christopher John Farley, looks at stars such as Paul McCartney who are doing benefits for the victims of Sept. 11, while senior editor Belinda Luscombe writes on how we need to laugh more. Read both, Tuesday, on time.com
...Susan Sontag the only critic left who still cares about high culture...
...worst she sounds like a more confident Annie Hall. Sontag’s blandness makes us ask whether critical appreciation of serious art requires the critic to drain the blood from her prose style. The great fear of this reviewer is that if he continues to want to read criticism of serious art, he will have to get used to writing without a shine to it, the substance-heavy but styleless prose of a Susan Sontag...
HAROLD BLOOM, literary critic and author of How to Read and Why: "Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, particularly the passage, 'Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which...
...promulgate all the regulations that the Secretary of Transportation wants, but the problem is who enforces them," says Charles Slepian, a New York-based attorney and outspoken critic of the FAA. "You cannot declare war against terrorists and then ask Continental Airlines to fight the battle...