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Quoting from sources as diverse ranging as Kafka's Metamorphosis and the Harry Potter series, Mary Maples Dunn welcomed first-years at the annual Radcliffe Lecture last night...
During the 40-minute lecture, Dunn quoted from Kafka and Vladimir Nabokov as well as children's authors like Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling, author of the popular Harry Potter books...
House Republicans have been dazzled by the bungling of their Senate counterparts whose various and sometimes contradictory positions on gun control a House Republican aide called "too complicated for Kafka." To let the issue cool, House G.O.P. leaders have put off debate until the middle of June in the hopes that lobbying by the N.R.A. and the passage of time will make it easier to enact less stringent legislation. Speaker Dennis Hastert has expressed a willingness to tighten gun laws: increasing the purchase age from 18 to 21 and requiring background checks for all sales at gun shows. But Democrats...
...feel of the play itself can be described as a cross between Kafka's The Trial and the Coen Brothers' comedies (The Big Lebowski). The protagonist Gross, played by Tom Prince '02, is a self-proclaimed humanist who has been blackmailed into allowing Ptydepe to become the official means of intra-office communication by his assistant, the nefarious Ballas, played expertly by Johannes Mowth, and, presumably, by the silent accomplice Mr. Pillar (Malka Resnicoff '00/Hostetler). As Gross begins his quest to set things right and prevent the ridiculously efficient language from taking over, he meets an absurd cast of office...
...journalistic essay, The Crime of Sheila McGough, the book has a fascinating mystery at its heart: the search for truth in the shadows of the legal system. Malcolm is an excellent and witty tour guide through this material, some of the densest thickets of bureaucratic confusion this side of Kafka. After all, McGough's client was, in Malcolm's evocative retelling, a veritable genius at the art of the con: layering stories upon stories and constantly filing equally believable, contradictory documents in legal offices across the country. Without Malcolm's intelligent and clear prose as a beacon, anyone would...