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...apparent that Lucas has totally lost touch with his creative genius. His embrace of special-effects technology over anything else has squashed the soul of the latest Star Wars films. His reliance on limitless digital technology allowed him to create his vision, but he fails to see that limitations inspire creativity. The original three Star Wars films are abundant proof of this. Lucas should realize that none of the special effects in the most recent trilogy look real. The lack of popular respect for these movies is a fitting fate for a failed idea...
Charles Krauthammer's essay "Did Chess Make Him Crazy?" [May 2] unfortunately looked at only the negative aspects of the Bobby Fischer saga. Krauthammer should know that there's a fine line between genius and madness. He wrote that Fischer "fell off a psychic cliff," but that's not generally how the game of chess affects people. I have been playing chess since I was in elementary school. It helped me tremendously with concentration, analytical skills, organizing and prioritizing. It made me what I am today: an engineer and International Chess Master. The experiences of the majority of chess players...
...vision of teaching in ways that are redolent of the archetypal odysseys of classical mythology." Perhaps it's just too many viewings of Dead Poets Society, but many student teachers envisage altering the course of young lives: winning over the shy child with empathy and enthusiasm; spotting and nurturing genius in the most unlikely pupils; instilling a love of learning - of Keats! - in the outwardly coarse. Despite the figures on early departure, Ewing says 90% of student teachers imagine themselves still teaching 10 years hence. Asked to predict their "major challenges," almost no one mentions parents...
...Jacques coined the term midlife crisis back in 1965, he was not talking about a man who, upon turning 40, wakes up the next morning afraid he is going to die, goes in for hair plugs, buys a Porsche and runs off with a cupcake. He was studying creative genius and found that for many artists productivity began to decline as they reached middle age and wrestled with their own mortality. Never a legitimate clinical diagnosis, it was more like a handy way of describing the perfectly predictable process whereby every so often people looked around at their lives...
...some ways that’s the genius of it. It’s the barest, most Beckett-like vocabulary that incorporates the theory and nothing else...