Word: ideas
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...misled? Perhaps. The most (startling?) interesting sentence of Early's review is one that comes in the last paragraph: "...Mr. Gates is far more honest than Mr. West is about the rank opportunism concealed in his (and all) bourgeois ambition." Regardless of who is more honest about it, the idea that "rank opportunism" features in the efforts of either West or Gates is a serious claim that could make us question why they are as prolific as they...
Like most Americans, Audrey Brantley, 42, of Birmingham, Alabama, thinks it would be a good idea to get more exercise, eat less fat and lose a few pounds. Until now those decisions have been hers to make. But Brantley, who works for the city as a library assistant, is enrolled in a new kind of health-and-wellness program that has the right, under certain circumstances, to tell her what kind of shape she should try to get into--or take away her insurance coverage. The program, which is run by the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Nursing...
...insists that more is more is more. If ever a musical was aptly named, this is it: outsize sets, a spillover cast, a warehouse worth of shiny toys and enough good cheer to depress anybody. Making a stage musical out of the Penny Marshall film was a good idea, but not an easy one to bring off. That film, about a 12-year-old boy who makes a wish to become "big" and lives to regret that his prayers were answered, had two elusive qualities that get lost in translation: charm and impeccable taste. The movie is consciously scaled down...
Journalism loves an easy irony--and no irony is sweeter than the idea that some creator of a cherished work should have proved less lovable than his or her creations. What most adult lovers of the Winnie-the-Pooh books seem to know about author A.A. Milne is that through a combination of obliviousness and neglect, he saddled his only son Christopher with a perfectly awful childhood--a fact that rocked the world in 1974 when Christopher Milne's memoir The Enchanted Places first appeared. In it, the "real" Christopher Robin painted the portrait of a father who was cold...
...invention of an authority figure who was imperfect though invariably wise and right was a novel idea, Travers' gift to the modern children's book, just as the idea that a little boy could go off and have unsupervised adventures with his stuffed animals, however fantastical, was Milne's. Both writers were emerging from a Victorian tradition that saw children's literature as a didactic form whose function--if it wasn't to romanticize childhood--was to instill a respect for adult values and behavior...