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...Eddie Rickenbacker, for one 43. A 650-mile hiking trail from here to Cap Gaspe, Que., was finished on Earth Day 45. McCain recently revisited the "__ Hilton" 46. The Panchen __ 47. Lilac is the first magazine by Israeli __ women 48. 63-Across's news agency 49. She's taken flak for not naming an independent counsel in the campaign-finance probe 52. Former Cambodian Premier Lon __ 53. Million __ March, scheduled for May 14 55. Like some vbs. 56. Mauna __ 57. Seemingly forever...
...trickery--an imposture made even worse by Dali's flagrant preference for Raphael and even the arch-academic Meissonier over Matisse or Mondrian, and by his impertinent way of calling true-believer modernists les cocus du vieil art moderne, the cuckolds of old modern art. Dali flew into such flak right from the beginning of his career: in 1929 the avant-gardist critic Efstratios Teriade complained that Dali's talent was "the precise opposite of those qualities which make a painter." But without the power granted by illusion to overturn our sense of the world's plain factuality, his contribution...
Sure, we might take some flak for the embarrassing fact that only the threatened loss of our beer and ice cream--rather than, say, the plight of the grape-picker or sweatshop worker--was able to motivate us apathetic Harvard students into action. But who are They, whoever They turns out to be, to deny the importance of beer and ice cream...
...Harrel: I noticed two things immediately. One is they're not as friendly. Two, they move too fast. And being in the minority, Southerners get flak for being slow, but I don't think we're slow...
...Harvard's English department, on the other hand, catches flak for being too trendy, dumping study of the canon of Western literature in favor of highly politicized approaches of study like queer theory and post-colonial studies...