Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...save any individual, any more than it will improve any society." While discarding these schoolmarmish fallacies, Bloom's Common Readers are also advised to forget about picking up literature for enjoyment: "The text is there to give not pleasure but the high unpleasure or more difficult pleasure that a lesser text will not provide." (Among many personal asides scattered throughout the book, Bloom notes that teaching the poems of Emily Dickinson left him with "fierce headaches.") What finally, then, is the point of this whole painful business? "All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper...
...attention will focus on skating stars like Nancy Kerrigan, Michelle Kwan, Todd Eldridge and Paul Wylie '91, who is hosting this year's show. A large group of lesser known skaters will also perform...
...better alternative--the lesser of two evils," says Emmanuelle M. Fleurinor '97. Fleurinor, who was born in the U.S. and considers herself a Haitian-American, says ideally the military would have left the country voluntarily, but that option was not likely...
...horse opera Lonesome Dove was a marvel of nostalgic bosh, and that same rare gift for making heroic tales from small-town street sweepings is on view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...
Part of the Weld money machine's success is no doubt a result of Weld's standing in the state of Massachusetts: he's popular, he's well-connected, and he's expected to trounce his lesser-known rivals on Election...