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...deliver a postcard is also out of sync with the way we holiday now. In the Thomson poll, 25% of respondents said postcards took too long to arrive. That may not have been true 20 years ago, when people went on trips of opulent duration-a three-week meander through Europe, say, or a monthlong U.S. tour. But in these days of city breaks and three-night packages, you usually get home before your postcards...
...continents, two souls and two worlds (this one and the next) converge for one quietly rapturous moment.” Tsai is no stranger to rapturous moments; in fact, with films like this he is solidifying his position as a master of the lingering shades of meaning that meander through life, exhibiting them slowly, so that all can breathe in their atmosphere...
...very glad of that. Of course, in many ways I envy those people’s certainty and sense of purpose. Still, while some students will continue to bomb along the interstates on the life map they drew up long ago, the rest of us will meander along smaller roads, hoping to discover our destinations as we travel. With any luck, we’ll find somewhere worth stopping soon enough. After all, sleeping in my little Chrysler Lebaron isn’t all that desirable...
...very glad of that. Of course, in many ways I envy those people’s certainty and sense of purpose. Still, while some students will continue to bomb along the interstates on the life map they drew up long ago, the rest of us will meander along smaller roads, hoping to discover our destinations as we travel. With any luck, we’ll find somewhere worth stopping soon enough. After all, sleeping in my little Chrysler Lebaron isn’t all that desirable...
...culture of overcommitment as the cause of an increasingly more frantic pace of life. Of course—8 a.m. poster runs and four-hour rehearsals leave less time for much else. But it seems our conversations about restructuring the Core, rethinking our extracurriculars and rescheduling our courseloads, all meander around one question that is rarely addressed: what is the nature of our learning...