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...course, the question of a moral framework is more problematic. Anderson’s work has always been deeply moralizing—whether on the resilience of family or the fidelity of close friendship??but here he trivializes Fox’s recklessness. The casual way that he endangers and deceives everyone in the film, or how he neglects his own son to an almost condemnable degree, is never answered for. Instead, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”—dramatically revised from Dahl’s book—ends ambiguously, with its characters...
...life: “There is no way that I have 900 actual friends.” But this provides an overly restrictive framework in which to consider the new ways in which we interact online. We can distinguish between the “core” elements of friendship??connection, laughter, and empathy—that remain independent of the medium through which they are forged. There are many friendships that would thrive even if Pony Express were the only method of communication after Harvard. An online social network’s real impact is not strengthening...
...bacon, toast, eggs, burgers, and dogs all tasted as if they had come from a gourmet restaurant. For me, the missing ingredient was company—and not just because it meant that I personally didn’t do all the cooking. Regardless of our friendship??s span, eating our way through a shared experience memorializes it—and my sous-chef—in my heart (and stomach) for far longer than the meal...
...added that an experience that solidified their friendship??which started freshman year—demonstrated this sense of caring. Hadar, an international student, spent her first winter break away from Harvard alone in New York during a blizzard, and Stein made the effort to call her to check in, despite being home in Miami with his friends and family...
...room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead of exiting gracefully, he did the next best thing: he took off all his clothes and passed out, naked, on the unlucky room’s couch. Needless to say, the Eliotites did not appreciate this gesture of intimacy and friendship??Aux armes, artistes! After being refused entry to a small soiree at the Signet Friday night, two ne’er-do-wells registered their disappointment in a manner befitting Harvard’s refined society of arts and letters: a brick through the kitchen window. (Perhaps...