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...half-knowledge and misunderstanding?punctured by the rare moment of glorious comprehension?is the space Carey has set out to explore in Wrong About Japan. It's not a journey he expected to take. His 12-year-old son Charley, the kind of introverted preteen who would never deign to express interest in anything, gets hooked on anim?, manga and all things cool that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff...
...debates have a great deal of currency in some parts of the country. If students from socially conservative areas absorb the type of rhetoric they hear at Harvard and take it home, they will confirm the notion that Ivy Leaguers are a bunch of leftists who will not deign to even consider opposing positions as anything but ignorant. This lexicon of alienation can take many forms. For one thing, the academy simply doesn’t speak the same language as most Americans, for whom “gender” glosses as “biological sex?...
BILLY CORGAN THE BOOK: Blinking with Fists, released Oct. 1 THE BUZZ: Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's publisher is pushing the collection by this alt rocker, who packed rage and rhythm into his lyrics for the Smashing Pumpkins CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: Atwixt the twine and flowers divine/ Devise the deign in this copper wane THE AUDIENCE: Art-school dropouts...
...arrest, the Kobe Bryant trial and the latest headline-grabber, an isolated case of mad cow disease in Washington. See, unlike many of my fellow pretentious intellectual types at Harvard, who read all the news that’s fit to print on a daily basis but rarely deign to catch the evening news, I appreciate what mega-conglomerate news can provide for people like me—a dose of reality, American pop-culture style. It keeps me in touch...
Though Boucher had not yet settled on a candidate, his five-year-old daughter Bayleigh didn’t deign to deliberate. When asked who she wanted for president, she pointed to her father...