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...more obvious, less idiosyncratic, and less captivating overall. Whereas Rockefeller appeared comfortable with the daily life of the Dani, his images of war and the ensuing celebrations and mourning lack the compassion of these others.The difference is most pronounced in a photograph of a group of women mourning a fallen Dani warrior. From a short distance, the photograph appears to be quite energetic, if not original; the women’s heads fill the frame and seem to push towards the right side of the photograph. Yet, upon closer examination, it becomes apparent that several of the women leer wearily...
...Ingredients: 1. 8 pm in Sanders Theater. 2. A Harvard orchestra is about to begin a concert. 3. To the left is an attractive Harvard student. 4. To the right is an infamous professor with a dog in her purse. 5. The MC has fallen asleep. 6. A Camus-esque fly is flying in lazy circles in front of the first row of seats. 7. First snowfall of the year...
...first row of seats beneath the balcony where he sat. Many of those present had been celebrating, and some were the worse for wear, including a young man at the end of Professor L***’s row whom I took to be the MC and who had fallen asleep. I glanced up at the front row of the balcony. To the left I saw an attractive Harvard student, and to the right an infamous teaching fellow whose purse was perched on the railing. Her seat was immediately above Professor L***, and I could not help but recall...
...course, he's not alone at that. It has often fallen to artists high and low to frame the choices that matter most: Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery, Aldous Huxley on "progress," George Orwell on tyranny, Ralph Ellison on race. We could debate which debate has most refocused the Iraq war: the one moderated by Tim Russert or the one by Jon Stewart. When Crichton takes aim at genetic engineering and argues that "the future is closer than you think - get used to it," he is likely to shape opinion more than all the bioethics seminars and Senate debates combined...
...astounded to learn that howard Stern earns $1,000 in 24 sec., while police officers and high school teachers earn the same amount for 43 hr. of work. The disparity of earnings between celebrities and average Americans clearly shows how far our culture's values have fallen. A radio personality's value to our society is totally insignificant compared with that of hardworking police officers and teachers. Forrest F. Leigh Boulder, Colorado...