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...their popularity is by no means universal. In certain circles at Harvard, "I-banking" and "consulting" are dirty words. Students seeking jobs in these fields are branded as "sell-outs," people who have forsaken their altruism and liberal ideals for lucrative careers...
Allons, enfants: this is Glass's best work in years, an exhilarating and original E-ticket ride that is a lot more stimulating than anything to be found at Euro Disney. The prolific composer, who has modified but never forsaken his adherence to the repetitive rhythms and simple harmonies of the Minimalist movement he helped found 30 years ago, continues to work at a furious pace, sometimes turning out one new opera a year, and he runs the risk of repeating himself. La Belle, though, is remarkable not only in conception but also in execution, brimming with freshets of melody...
...beginning, and the time has come for that union to end. Annulment, of course, is out of the question (Harvard and Radcliffe have consummated their marriage, to be sure). A legitimate divorce should be pursued instead, for Radcliffe has time and again been unfaithful to her husband. She has forsaken her first love, veritas, for the ephemeral passions of political correctness and feminism...
...Bennington out of debt and into prominence, its new president has abolished tenture for all new hires, fired one-third of the faculty and forsaken plain teachers for "teacher-practitioners...
Burton, however, is content to merely enumerate the events along the way of this amazing odyssey. From time to time, the author permits himself the liberty of an observation -- referring to a 1940 letter from Bernstein to fellow gay composer David Diamond, in which Bernstein claims he has forsaken sex for art, Burton notes, "There is something uncharacteristically hysterical about his self-pitying tone" -- but such analytical moments are lost in the flood of numbing chronological detail...