Word: kind
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Leaving the real world to re-enter the Harvardsphere (kind of like the biosphere, but fewer plants and more TFs) also has its perks. The opportunity to immerse ourselves in a socially and intellectually unique. After all, part of education, if I correctly interpreted my General Ed 105: The Literature of Social Reflection readings from this week, entails a suspension of reality and a lunge into a magical never-never land...
...Well, that's a pretty controversial scene, but it was exactly the kind of torture that was done during the war to political prisoners. The cell, the cot, the chair with the wires--they did that to pilots that were caught, that were shot down and taken prisoner...
...What was it like working with Cube, and with Mark Wahlberg, people that didn't start out as actors, but have kind of shined at it since they've given...
...public sphere--what makes it morally acceptable to make fun of Celine Dion's music, for instance--is the suspicion that such music is itself a form of cynicism, a manipulation of America's overwhelming urge towards the saccharine. You get the sense that when Dion and her kind are singing about love they are not singing about their own love at all: and erzatz emotion is laughable. But it takes moral callousness to mock somebody's genuine sincerity. After all, what the scoffer is saying is that one person's true hopes and fears are ridiculous...
Roger D. Hodge is not afraid of this kind of behavior. His Harper's Magazine review of Jedediah Purdy '97's first book, For Common Things, is one of the most vitriolic and least clever put-downs I have ever read; when its negativity is contrasted with Purdy's obvious and infectuous enthusiasm for the many things he loves and praises, the review also begins to seem strikingly sad. In his preface, Purdy boyishly admits that his book is "one young man's letter of love": it is this vulnerability that makes Purdy a moving and an effective narrator. That...