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...only a few teams and individuals could take home trophies . For the full results and ballots for all the rounds (and perhaps to reminisce about your storied high school past), click here...
...full up’ with atrocities and horrors,” wrote Roger Casement in a letter to the British Foreign Office in March 1911. Casement, a diplomat and activist, had just returned to London from the Amazon jungle, where he had spent several months investigating the rumoured exploitation of Barbadian workers—at that time, British subjects—by a rubber manufacturing company. The Peruvian Amazon Company, Casement found, was abusing not only its Barbadian employees, but also enslaving and terrorizing the local Indian population. In the years following these revelations, until his death in 1916, Casement...
...protagonist and his longings, desires, and solipsistic rants as he yearns after Clara and analyses her every gesture. Though laden with the narrator’s passionate obsession for Clara, “Eight White Nights” chronicles an essentially chaste love. Aciman denies the reader the full range of the sensuous prose that he unquestionably mastered in his first novel, “Call Me By Your Name,” and consequently creates a more emotionally tentative work...
...poignancy of two kindred spirits attempting to invent a hermetic universe for themselves. They invent the terms “otherpeoples” and “Shukoffs” in their very first conversation, referring to the mass of boring, unimaginative humans who surround them. Their conversation continues, full of earnest jargon about “trenches,” “lying low,” and “pandangst,” which is supposed to encode their feeling of deep emotional vulnerability. Clara and the narrator escape concrete thoughts and feelings by inventing these...
Though “Measure” is full of complex, catchy tracks, each offering a slightly different twist on an old indie pop sound, as a whole the album falls short in its inability to unite such disparate songs into a satisfying record. At over an hour in length, “Measure” struggles to remain cohesive. The band’s decision to explore and indulge all of their musical interests prevents Field Music from putting together what could have been a great record. Nevertheless, the group’s raw talent and invention will certainly...