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Either way, the Crimson must leave the past behind them. The squad faces two difficult contests this week against Yale and Brown. If Harvard can win them both, it will win the Ivy League championship and all this talk of choking will be a distant memory...
...distant age of sensitive nineteenth-century guys, Franz Schubert joined the bandwagon of paesan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and fellow German Romantics, over-analyzing every passing emotion and fluttering of the heart. Here in the twenty-song cycle of Die Schone Mullerin (The Fair Maiden of the Mill), Schubert indulges his delicate sensibilities with harmonically textured compositions set to the often silly poetry of Wilhelm Muller. Schubert wrote more than 600 of these "lieder" (songs), elevating it to a major musical art form...
...view of nature has its saving grace. True, it doesn't let us imagine some idyllic time when nature was benign and the human heart pristine--a time when, as Augustine believed, human flesh had not yet been corrupted by raw desire and self-absorption. On the contrary, our distant evolutionary past was a time when desire was even rawer than now, and self-absorption less nuanced...
...become more involved with (or devoured by, rather) the Internet has been print media, particularly newspapers. This industry has also succumbed to pressure to move with the rapid flow of technology. The use of print news and the newspaper as we know it, is quickly fading into a distant memory--a scary and troubling fact that further testifies to the idea that tradition is quickly escaping Americans as an important value...
...Republican party is leading a conscious campaign to discourage us from voting...by saying that the political system is distant from your lives, your vote won't matter....The right wing understands that they can't win the majority vote...