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...sensed trouble. In its most recent Philanthropic Giving Index - sort of a Consumer Confidence Index for donations - the Center on Philanthropy reported in July that nonprofits were feeling less optimistic than they had six months ago. And that was before Lehman, before AIG, before the S&P 500 Index dove off a cliff. Gregory Boroff, senior vice president for external relations at the New York Food Bank, notes that his organization's donations from direct mailings is down 27% from the same time last year. Like City Harvest, the New York Food Bank receives the bulk of its donations during...
...Republican conventions, the show was especially timely. On closing night, audience members flooded the stage singing the show’s songs. In one climactic moment, an elderly bald man moved away from security guards to the center of the crowd and unfurled a peace flag covered with a dove and a rainbow. People started weeping.“This is why I do theater,” Paulus says. “When the show ends, something starts to happen and you are changed.” A TIMELY MESSAGEWith the Task Force for the Arts questions the university?...
...upper ranks of the literary world with Infinite Jest, his 1,079-page (and 388-footnote) meta-epic of tennis, drug addiction, art, terrorism and loneliness set in a future when each year is known by the name of its corporate sponsor (e.g., the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar). Infinite Jest was the quintessence of 1990s literary maximalism, and it became instant required reading. Enough with those '80s party-boy writers! Here was a novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age. Wallace became a reluctant literary pinup, with his stubbly...
...reaction paranoia into post-modern mega-epic. He did do those things. But Wallace was also the greatest horror novelist ever. In Infinite Jest a corporation-run unified North America of the near-future (dates have been replaced by sponsor names, such as the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar) is being decimated by a videotape so entertaining that people watch it on a loop, mesmerized until they die of dehydration or starvation or lack of sleep. Reading it, you realize how soul-sad lonely you are. And Wallace creates that effect, like Pynchon, while being laugh-out-loud...
...Durwood said, “but she’s also a great blocker and a great person for me to work with as a setter, and she’s really eager and is always ready to be set.”Freshman Christine Wu dove for a career-high 21 digs, while Durwood posted 53 assists and 19 digs against CCSU.“We’ve got an incredible freshman class,” Durwood said. “Christine Wu is just an incredible defender and an amazing teammate...All the freshmen have already added...