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...wrongs righted or forgotten, and the younger generation brave and happy, ready to strike out on their own. And as I closed Dombey and Son, my regret was mingled with fierce curiosity about their fates, and a sense that the unwritten part of their livesthe part that did not hew to the Dickensian pattern I knew so wellmight be more interesting than the part that had preceded...
...post-9/11 politics, much post-9/11 TV has been manly and daddy-oriented. The networks have churned out CSI clones that have mostly male leads. After a ratings drop-off among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer to the "strong women" question--that he learned "to listen to them"--was According to Jim politics. He's the likable hubby who needs Laura to point out his foibles, but he's still...
...post-9/11 politics, much post-9/11 TV has been manly and daddy-oriented. The networks have churned out CSI clones that have mostly male leads. After a ratings drop-off among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer to the "strong women" question - that he learned "to listen to them" - was According to Jim politics. He's the likable hubby who needs Laura to point out his foibles, but he's still...
...theme of “internationalization” is in part a call for more of this kind of fluffy treatment of foreign cultures, sanitized through a Western “pluralistic” lens so that nobody’s feelings get hurt. Meanwhile, students who do not hew a narrow ideological line will suffer in the classroom. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 described Harvard professors to the Boston Globe: “Everybody is a liberal and shows it. They conduct classes in such a way as to make conservatives feel excluded...
Obviously, there’s a middle ground in this debate that we can all hew to—a commitment to a perspective from which we can delight in artworks both popular and obscure. The world would be poorer without Bruce Conner and James Benning and Hollis Frampton, but it would also be poorer without Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott and Monty Python. Those who snub one camp for the other are depriving themselves of a lot of worthy and compelling work...