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...market for people who love to talk about themselves. Isay is the founder of StoryCorps, a national project he founded in 2003 that encourages everyday Americans to share the stories of their lives. Isay has quite a story to tell himself. He's won a MacArthur "Genius" grant, a Guggenheim, five Peabody Awards, and a slew of other broadcasting awards, and has written four books. But he's modest when he talks about his listening project. Each StoryCorps conversation (between two family members or friends) at a StoryCorps location is recorded for free on an audio CD; a second copy...
...want to be President, nor is he working too hard on the campaign trail. Many who know him say he is talented but not particularly hard-working or ambitious. After all, he left the Senate for “Law & Order.” Similarly, Mike Teavee, the little genius in Dahl’s book, certainly had some skills to share with Willy Wonka, but he didn’t even like chocolate, wasn’t excited to visit the factory, and certainly wouldn’t have wanted to take it over. Thompson’s similar...
...letdown. It’s hard to improve on what are likely the two most popular songs Daft Punk has ever created, but it’s even harder when they’re layered over a standard ’90s techno melody. The genius returns in the pounding thrill of songs like “The Prime Time of Your Life / Brainwasher / Rollin’ & Scratchin’ / Alive,” which bring out the power of some of the less popular tunes of the Daft Punk corpus. The new magnetism they create with overly repetitious...
...problem: Too often, students view one another as obstacles or means to an end. It’s the same kind of mentality on display in the New York subway as travelers scramble and shove past one another to squeeze onto trains. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that communities, from New York City to Harvard, operate largely on goodwill; We are each partially responsible for the (un)pleasantness of our surroundings. No one is going to force you to be considerate, and it’s not something you can put on your resume...
...interesting story line, or else Stephen King would be on the AP English syllabus. Rather, a work is considered “good” because it points to something deeper, in society or in ourselves, beyond the realm of ordinary human experience. Tolstoy’s genius was to take something as banal as Anna’s infidelity and give it a darker psychological twist...