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...secondary fields; and discouragement of honors programs. Money is dirty: Students preparing for law, medicine, or business—including many athletes—are treated as outside the liberal arts tradition. Yet the new curricular proposals sustain that great intellectual tradition in name only. The gentleman amateur, dilettantish and unmoved by the financial exigencies of real life, is the ideal student of Harvard’s new curriculum...
...truth is that Phoenix is warm, polite and, yes, quite dull--perhaps even willfully so. Unlike other aspiring leading men, Phoenix, 31, is intent on being a nonentity off-screen. He does not talk about whom he might be dating, walk red carpets or volunteer dilettantish political opinions. His brother was River Phoenix, the icon of lost potential, but he refuses to discuss any feelings he has about River's 1993 death from a drug overdose. Joaquin is humble and self-deprecating, although not comically so, and when pressed to reveal anything about himself, he often retreats into incoherence...
...film’s structure, essentially a series of bullet points from “fear” to “O’Reilly,” is bland and dilettantish. The music is dramatic but tinny: the Fahrenheit 9/11 score for Nintendo. Worse, the on-screen graphics bring to mind the videos on acids and bases you used to watch in your high school chemistry class. Greenwald calls this “guerrilla” filmmaking; I call it “shoddy...
...eschew the star quality that marks Hollywood and Hong Kong; indeed, they often do without professional actors. Their films look less like paintings than placards. No stately settings, no echoes of the fine arts, no images that pop your eyes in wonder. The very notion of masterpiece-making seems dilettantish to the rebels of the sixth form. Here are film kids in revolt?against the government, of course, but also against their sanctified big brothers. Speaking of the Fifth Generation, Zhang Yuan has said, "They had a slogan: 'Not like the past.' It motivated us to create...
Keynes was posted to the India Office, but the civil service proved deadly dull, and he soon left. He lectured at Cambridge, edited an influential journal, socialized with his Bloomsbury friends, surrounded himself with artists and writers and led an altogether dilettantish life until Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo and Europe was plunged into World War I. Keynes was called to Britain's Treasury to work on overseas finances, where he quickly shone. Even his artistic tastes came in handy. He figured a way to balance the French accounts by having Britain's National Gallery...