Word: glorious
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...Glorious Noise interview by Jake Brown, Darnielle claims sincerity in this fiction, saying that “a carefully constructed song is the mark of a sincere songwriter, not a spilling-out of random un-retouched demons.” In a genre marked by endlessly self-referential artists aurally laying claim to the authenticity of their experience, Darnielle’s sincerity lies in his commitment to well-crafted falsehoods...
...America's Team." On the other hand, far to the north, life is so sweet for the Packers that many are coming to view them as America's real team. Owned by snow-shoveling townspeople rather than a manure-shoveling megalomaniac like Jerry Jones, dedicated to reviving the glorious tradition of Lambeau and Hutson and Lombardi and Hornung, led by a truly charismatic defensive end (Reggie White) and a throwback quarterback (Brett Favre) who has learned to confine his swashbuckling to the field, the Packers are ready to do the Lambeau Leap into the nation's heart. Their...
Brilliant and beer-soaked, this book is ostensibly about a lazy, poor student who's writing a novel. But he loses control of his characters, and they get mixed up with local Dublin types and figures out of Gaelic myth who collide and commingle in glorious, category-defying cacophony...
...friends, I speak of that peculiar and misguided aspect of a Harvard education so misrepresented in the brochures and misapplied in practice—the section and its accompanying TF.The section, at least as it was described to me when I applied to college, was some sort of glorious ivory tower summit between a small group of students and a professor or an expert graduate student in the field. It was to be a place to shout out crazy ideas, to debate and wrestle with complicated issues, and generally look forward to attending every week. My impression was about...
...Live 8 concerts) that involves rock music. It is this dismissal of the big idea, surely, that lies behind young voters' rejection of the E.U. constitution. For their parents, the E.U., with its promise of ever closer union between nations that had recently been at war, was a glorious cause. But for those under 35, the E.U. is not an earthly paradise in the making, but an unremarkable fact of life. Give it a constitution, with all the usual high-tone preambles? Like, why bother? A certain ennui with the great causes of the past, of course, does not translate...