Word: goldener
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Although none of us was actually alive during this golden age of true elegance, we pine for it no less strenuously, and wish HUDS would devote its superfluous expenditures to recreating Harvard’s classic gold coast experience rather than to installing newfangled machines. If we’re to truly honor the second Gilded Age in which we live, HUDS should put away the television monitors and kiosks and break out the gold leafing and bowties...
...Elizabeth: The Golden Age? Better, perhaps, to call this Elizabeth: The Frenzied Years - especially since the film's director, Shekhar Kapur, suffers from an advanced case of restless camera syndrome. Tracking shots, twisting boom shots, placements that are either radically high or low - they all betoken a director who doesn't trust his material. And why should he? The statecraft of 400 years ago is not the stuff of great movies - all mutterings in the shadows about geopolitical issues that the screenwriters, William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, prefer not to go into. That leaves Kapur with the Elizabeth-Raleigh thing...
...Elizabeth: The Golden Age” has matured in all ways since its prequel, 1998’s “Elizabeth.” Motivated by the many intricate layers of the personality of Queen Elizabeth I, whom Cate Blanchett portrays in both films, it never rests in one place for too long and stays impressively true to historical accounts of her reign. Despite the seven Oscars for which “Elizabeth” was nominated, “The Golden Age” breaks with the common convention of sequels falling short of their predecessors. Rather...
...this platform—would have been unimaginable even a few short years ago. Those who charge that universities are unable to change should take note of this transformation, of how different we are from universities even of the mid 20th century. And those who long for a lost golden age of higher education should think about the very limited population that alleged utopia actually served. College used to be restricted to a tiny elite; it now serves the many, not just the few. The proportion of the college age population enrolled in higher education today is four times what...
Through the windows of a Paris cafe on the Right Bank, the lunchtime crowd chatting over red wine and espressos can see water gushing from stone sphinxes under a carved column topped with a golden angel. It is hard to imagine a starker contrast between this gracious eatery and the ravaged villages of Darfur, yet among the diners here is a man who could hold the key to peace in the devastating conflict in western Sudan. "The Sudan regime is an outlaw regime," Abdul Wahid el Nur, leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement, shouts, slamming his fist...