Word: longering
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...began mindlessly thumbing through the racks of neon sunglasses. One pair in particular beckoned me, though it was the plainest of the bunch: they were faux reading glasses with black frames and clear lenses. I pulled them on like armor. My metamorphosis had finally arrived. I was no longer the airhead, I was the coveted, feared, admired intellectual. I immediately bought them...
While I no longer wear the glasses, I somehow can’t bring myself to throw them away. They’re a reminder of the bittersweet, adolescent sense of insecurity that took me a decade to overcome; and its nice to be reminded of ones triumphs. Plus, I might need them in case I ever run into Miss Baker again...
...profession, absent in Lévi-Strauss’ more detached volumes of scholarship. This elegiac tone evolved into outright pessimism as he grew older; in one of his last interviews he flatly states that “the world on which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.” Part of this had to do with the ascendance of Derrida & Co., who gradually replaced his universalizing tendencies with their more fragmentary perspectives. In a sense, Lévi-Strauss lived out the greatest tragedy that can befall a philosopher: that...
Thailand may have a reputation for indulging visitors in their various vices, but smoking is no longer one of them. On Tuesday, more than 600 fired-up protesters invaded a convention center in Bangkok in an attempt to smoke out representatives of the global tobacco industry, who were holding a conference in a country with some of the strictest tobacco controls in Asia...
...businesses. One of the more surprising findings: a growing number of new shoplifters are outwardly reputable, middle-class people who are walking off with French cheeses, quality meats, cosmetics, mobile phones, clothing and other goodies that they feel they need to maintain a quality of life they can no longer afford. (See pictures of people shopping on Black Friday...