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Speaking of The Times, it turns out that Yale may lose their free copies of the Gray Lady in dining halls. An op-ed columnist in The Yale Daily News opined about the potential loss, saying that the newspaper serves to "create well informed, broadly informed citizens." We, though, agree with the sentiment of HPRgument: "I can’t see why it should dumb down the Yalies—well, actually?...
While there may be some truth in the claims about cultural decline, I believe the issue is more complicated. It’s reductive and overly deterministic to claim literature is doomed because it’s an antiquated technology in the modern era. In fact, the very reasons some critics cite for the death of reading prove why literature is especially essential for our generation...
...spite of such minor flaws, however, “Heligoland” is a resounding success. While the past seven years may have seemed like a great hiatus in music-making, the efforts that went into this album were clearly time-intensive, and they were not wasted. With a host of tracks that are at once arresting, menacing, and beautiful, “Heligoland” reestablishes Massive Attack’s captivating musical aesthetic and proves to be a bold reminder that Del Naja and Marshall are still going as strong as ever...
...older, there’s more that we must do,” claims the chorus of “Slush,” the sixth track of Hot Chip’s eagerly anticipated new album, “One Life Stand.” These lyrics may well have been the mantra guiding the album’s creation, because with their fourth studio record, the British electropop group’s ability to integrate seemingly incongruous elements into a single fluid masterpiece has finally come to full fruition...
...than their immediate surroundings. He has shown that reflections, like shadows, are a mystery to the human mind; their representation in art has but a few of the limitations which govern reality. He maintains, in a similar vein as Livingstone, that Impressionist art is so appealing because intentional blurring may connect representations more directly to emotional centers in the brain rather than to conscious image-recognition areas. Cavanagh has even offered an explanation why flat, two-dimensional representations are effective, arguing that we do not experience the visual world as truly three-dimensional...