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Long before the U.S. lost its trade balance, it was lopsided with intellectual goods from Europe. Marx, Freud, Sartre and Levi-Strauss were required cribbing. Books translated from the French and German were best sellers and their authors culture heroes. So were their interpreters. As a critic and novelist, Susan Sontag handled European ideas and forms with brilliance and style. The camera loved her dark good looks, and she became an American knockoff of the Continental intellectual as gravely seductive celebrity. The brain, she said on at least one occasion, is an erogenous zone...
According to documents obtained by The Crimson, the committee studied five corporations that offer health care benefits to their employees' domestic partners: Levi Strauss, Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., Lotus Development Corp., the City of Berkeley, Calif. and the City of Seattle...
Entitled "The (Im)Pious Poet: Reading Todros ben Yehuda ha-Levi Abu al-'Afiya," Feldman's essay won honorable mention in the Hoopes Prize competition...
Cons. Connies. Chucks. High-tops. All Stars. By any name, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star basketball shoe is an American classic -- and still a hot seller. For sheer endurance, the simple canvas and vulcanized-rubber shoe (price: $32) now ranks up there with leather bomber jackets, Levi's and Coca-Cola. Last week Converse celebrated the 75th birthday of the All Star and launched an ad campaign that includes a battery of five-second TV spots...
...Hegel sees a world with ideas in constant conflict: an original idea or state of existence (called the "thesis") automatically leads to the development of its own contradiction (called the "anitithesis"). The thesis and antithesis, after struggling with each other, form the "synthesis." Great Thinkers love this idea. Marx, Levi-Strauss an similar types found Great Truths in this idea of Hegel...