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...both social and sport, mental and athletic, and controlled yet sometimes undisciplined,” wrote Zuckerberg in response to the prompt asking about his most meaningful activity. What does Zuckerberg’s essay reveal (besides the fact he took geekiness to a whole new level)? Expos preceptor Elizabeth L. Greenspan offers the following critique of Zuckerberg’s essay: “Zuckerberg seems to be offering up ‘fencing’ as a metaphor for himself, that Zuckerberg is–or imagines himself to be–‘both social...
...Within days, overflow crowds were lining up in the snow to hear Edwards and pulling down his posters to be autographed after he had finished speaking. "They were handing up anything that could be signed-napkins, envelopes. Here's the back of my deposit slip, sign that," his wife Elizabeth wrote in her memoir. Bill Clinton's old strategist James Carville marveled at the time that it was the best stump speech he had ever heard. On Salon, Peter Dizikes predicted, "Before too long, the Edwards speech could be like a museum exhibit that political tourists flock to see before...
...academia and dance. “There’s an intellectual and a literary aspect to Martha’s work that has always been fascinating to me,” says Dakin. Dakin herself did not discover dance until college, where she began taking modern dance with Elizabeth Bergmann, the current director of Harvard’s Dance Program. She says she connected with Graham’s work from the start.“It immediately felt completely normal to me,” she says. “It was an organic, from-the-inside...
...film version is directed by Joe Wright, best known for his recent adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” which, like this flick, also starred Keira Knightley. As a fan of neither Keira’s wolfish style of beauty nor her interpretation of Elizabeth Bennet, I was originally reluctant to see the Wright-Knightley duo assault another one of my favorite books. Many would claim that, with “Pride and Prejudice,” Wright successfully dealt with the doubly difficult task of interpreting an iconic book and remaking a cult classic film...
...writer and Kentucky native Elizabeth Hardwick was born in the wrong region for someone who aspired to be a "New York Jewish intellectual." So she moved north and got a Ph.D. at Columbia. In 1945 she drew comparisons to Eudora Welty with her first novel, The Ghostly Lover. After writing for the Partisan Review, though, Hardwick became better known as a critic, co-founding the highbrow New York Review of Books in 1964 and producing such collections as Seduction and Betrayal, now standard reading for the study of women in fiction. Hardwick...