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After the week, externs have a better grasp of their sponsors' fields...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: BREAKING into the BELTWAY | 4/9/1999 | See Source »

...Literary scholars help us interpret literature, contextualizing it and helping us to grasp its relevance. The study of literature does not give us an increasingly clear picture of what the world is actually like, as the hard sciences do, but instead reflects the world as we see it. There is no measurable progress toward any determined goals in literature because our understanding of the world changes constantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Literary scholars help us interpret literature, contextualizing it and helping us to grasp its relevance. The study of literature does not give us an increasingly clear picture of what the world is actually like, as the hard sciences do, but instead reflects the world as we see it. There is no measurable progress toward any determined goals in literature because our understanding of the world changes constantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literature Meant to Reflect, Not Enhance, Experience | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

When he's motivated, Wilson continues to have a firm grasp on his music. A few days after the interview, during a sound check for the second stop on the tour (a virtually sold-out theater just outside Chicago), Thomas seems to be running things. But Wilson is unhappy with a run-through of Kiss Me, Baby, a classic Beach Boys tune. Somewhere in the middle of a complex arrangement featuring nine vocalists, he has detected someone singing flat. He asks to run through the song again and then abruptly calls a halt after maybe half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Vibrations | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Lynn Redgrave, Gods and Monsters: The Golden Globes honored Redgrave but more for her lifetime body of work than her performance as the Hungarian housekeeper of openly gay film director James Whale in the 30s. It's a strange role that shows off Redgrave's remarkable grasp of her craft, but she controversy of the film's subject matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar is Beautiful Saving Private Oscar Thin Red Oscar Oscars in Love Oscar | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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