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...Writing in his blog, my friend Shane K. Wilson ’07 quotes Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger: “To gain freedom of insight and action in a more remote context, often at the price of ineptitude in an immediate one, is a definition of genius.” Without geniuses there would be no intellectual situation to speak of, only hollow feedback, the sound of measuring tapes flapping and brows furrowing. Genius versus critic is Lil’ Wayne v. Kanye West; Bush v. Cheney; Twin Towers v. Freedom Tower; Sal Paradise v. Dean...
...Sanger, who was reporting for The Crimson, was trying to find out what had happened. Hoping to see if any major developments had occurred, the freshman had spent time asking students and faculty if they had any insight into what might have caused the building’s evacuation...
Commencement is ironically a time for closing. It is a time when Harvard presents, after four toilsome years, its illustrious graduating class. They have been equipped with the keen ethical and intellectual insight to answer the Harvard call of duty: “Depart to serve better thy country and they kind.” Harvard is, and has long been, a paramount institution. Its graduates are the enlightened; they are the light bearers and the promised leaders of tomorrow. This is why the events of May 12 should never have happened...
...class and taking evening runs along the Charles. And I waited, as if meaning would drop from the sky and hit me. While I did discover the beauty of the Charles at sunset and learned a lot about Descartes’ existential crises, those pursuits did not yield much insight about myself...
...those documentaries that tells you everything you already know about its subject. It features many talking musicological heads, falling back in insight-free awe at the composer's apparently genial genius (a refreshing exception is the crankish Jonathan Miller, who has directed many a Mozart opera). Since Mozart traveled endlessly in search of gigs - 25,000 miles all told - the director, Phil Grabsky gives us many useless out-the-window shots of his own car chugging along modern European highways as he duplicates those journeys, many sequences of contemporary citizens wandering aimlessly and inelegantly in front of buildings Mozart visited...