Word: line
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...surprise that nostalgia will cause a baby boomer to fall in line with the dominant stereotype of the youth of today and decry the greedy, "antiseptic" state of the students he teaches. This shallowness is pretty standard in anything written lately about the "younger generation." It is a little strange, however, to see such a cursory treatment of the literature Professor Blumenthal, a teacher of poetry here, amply quotes...
...start with Shakespeare: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" is one of the more romantic lines of the more romantic sonnets of Shakespeare. Blumenthal uses the line as a possible theme for the '80s generation, one that refuses to idealize love and lovers. The poem goes on to list a variety of perfect qualities the mistress (or possibly, male lover) does not have...
...given Blumenthal's acknowledged voyeurism, is it unreasonable to expect students to have sex outside of his line of vision? More seriously, Blumenthal ignores the effects the AIDS epidemic has had on our public and private displays of affection, homosexual or heterosexual. His disappointment with students' apparent willingness to quit their mates ignores the role women's liberation has played in changing the notion of marriage from a result of economic necessity to an instrument of a happier life. Isn't the latter worth waiting...
...quoting the "younger" (or in his terms, "their") generation, Blumenthal is even more carless. Tracy Chapman epitomizes our greedy decade with the line "If not now...when?" I'm hard-pressed to find a clearer example of quoting out of context. Hasn't Michael Blumenthal heard that Chapman, a folksinger, is "talkin 'bout a revolution...
...bottom line, however, is that is was only one weekend. No one vacuumed up Harvard's talent over the summer. The Crimson was still, in the end, the best team...