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...forgotten/ And I don't want to be reminded." Casablancas has a world-weariness that would ordinarily be suspicious in a 25-year-old. He is the son of model-magnate John Casablancas, but a study of his DNA would more probably reveal a family connection to Holden Caulfield. The lyrics on Room on Fire that stick with you - "You are young, darling/ For now but not for long," "Kiss me now that I'm older" - smack of premature angst, but Casablancas sells it well. He sounds genuinely bored through a solid 75% of Room on Fire - at one point...
...students’ gravity shouldn’t surprise me. After all, most of us are here because of our studiousness, because we were good at aping adult mores, because our teenage disaffectedness was never fierce enough to prevent us from being our high school teachers’ darlings. Holden Caulfield doesn’t come to Harvard. (When I shared this theory with my father, he snorted and said, “Maybe he sneaks in the back door at Hampshire.”) What few of our rebellious impulses weren’t screened out by the admissions...
...three years ago requiring insurance companies to report slavery profits (eight companies have thus far disclosed that they sold policies on 614 slaves), while Georgia and Pennsylvania are considering following suit. "There can never be any real justice until we discover this information," says L.A. councilman Nate Holden...
Finally, in an “octopussy” speech with James Bond puns, Holden Karnofsky ’03 noted in his Ivy oration that when students enter Harvard, they have a lot to learn...
...couple of years ago, for example, a San Francisco playwright named Joan Holden had the somewhat unpromising notion of turning Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book about her experiences as a minimum-wage worker, into a stage play. The result is an episodic but incisive series of vignettes about the impossibility of making ends meet while waiting tables in Florida, scrubbing toilets in Maine and stocking discount-store shelves in Minnesota. Nickel & Dimed has its deficiencies as drama, but it's a rare example of theater that tries to open people's eyes to the way life...