Word: kafka
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Harvard College Professor and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis: I learned to think about them from being deeply troubled by deeply troubling books. Kafka, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky in particular...
...peace and quiet, visit the ivy-clad New Jewish Cemetery, 1 Israelska, where Franz Kafka rests. The beautifully sculpted tombstones in this 115-year-old graveyard function as a sort of outdoor gallery of 20th century artistic styles...
...don’t tell,” not being at war, that matters. (I don’t care for the word homophobic, which means in Greek “one who fears the same thing,” an interesting problem that seems to marry Kafka to Zen.) And then there was the list, thoughtfully and diffidently presented, should you care to read his remarks, of possible reasons—reasons others have proposed, mind you—for the dearth of women in science. So he’s a misogynist, too! Help! For the record...
...peace and quiet, visit the ivy-clad New Jewish Cemetery, 1 Israelska, where Franz Kafka rests. The beautifully sculpted tombstones in this 115-year-old graveyard function as a sort of outdoor gallery of 20th century artistic styles. For a great view of the hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket?like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies - definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...
...resignation of Larry Summers.If I hadn’t witnessed it firsthand, I’d say Summers’ ouster had all the makings of one of those storylines in which implausible characters make the plot altogether fantastic and unredeemed.The recent events are a scene lifted from Kafka, where an unthinking chimera called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seizes upon wrongdoings that few outside the academy would conceive of as wrong and then tenaciously holds on, overseeing the two-year-long persecution of their boss for these well-publicized thought crimes and for a cornucopia of unenumerated slights...