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...forward is the loss of businesses that support the Cambridge community Our main concern with corporate enterprises entering the Square is not their influence on tradition but rather their ability to meet student needs. Rising rental rates have led not to an oppressing commercial atmosphere, but rather to an insipid conformity. Today a total of four different banks occupy prime real-estate in the square—an entirely superfluous number considering their identical function. Property owners—Harvard amongst them—should consider not only the money that they rake in but also the community and atmosphere...
...However, in his view, the author’s work should be centered around neither a concern for verisimilitude nor a concern for creativity that may be “divorced from authentic feelings.” Purely imagined fantasies “can only end up insipid and weak,” he argues, but at the same time “literature is not simply a replica of reality.” Interesting though it may be, Gao’s argument is poorly constructed. Rarely does Gao entertain possible counterarguments, and this hurts...
...loud to our class in the hopes of imparting wisdom and decreasing the number of knife-fights that broke out each month. I may still have difficulty locating Namibia on a map, but that class imparted something more lasting than cartographical knowledge: a passionate hatred for the insipid, as embodied in the literature of Albom.For those fortunate enough to be unacquainted with his work, Albom has found a niche writing inspirational books that invariably involve a soul-searching protagonist grappling with death, either his own or someone else’s. Mix one part terminal illness with one part self...
...that we let the stars of country into our communal Crimson heart. Instead of listening to the insipid independent rock of Beck—how I hate him—or the philistine shouting of “Them Franchise Boys” at your parties, embrace the take-no-prisoners drawl of Tim McGraw. He’s more rugged, more direct and not nearly so French...
...More and more, humanities departments are resembling Swift’s fanciful flying island of Laputa, in which abstracted philosophers hover over the common people, lost in sterile speculative dreaming. Indeed, the Harvard Task Force on General Education has ratified this irrelevance by subjugating the study of literature to insipid notions of cultural inquiry in their recent October 2006 report...