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...words “curriculum vitae” set you shuddering with career anxiety, Yoel Hoffmann’s new work goes a long way to remind you of their original meaning??the “course of life.” While the content of Hoffmann’s “Curriculum Vitae” traces the curvature of a rich but not wildly unusual life, the unfettered poetry by which he conveys his experiences buoys the text into the realm of the genuinely distinctive. Hoffmann underscores his intimacy with the story, which closely parallels...
...recognizing an objective standard—such as the “Veritas” ironically still emblazoned upon the University arms—the sagest counsel that Harvard can permit itself to offer its wards is: do what makes you feel good. “Meaning?? in life cannot arise from anywhere but from within, from “being true to yourself,” i.e., to whichever prejudices you acquired before you arrived at Harvard or those you have absorbed in the four years since...
...many talents for fortune, prestige, and power. The liberal arts should educate those passions, inspiring at the very least an awareness that the greatest goods in life are not simply creature comforts or those simple and low pleasures of the herd. And certainly, true happiness and “meaning?? do not reside in satisfying the inclinations of the passions or unexamined prejudices...
...Haven, on a late November day as the sun set, my fellow writers and I did not intend to learn a life lesson, and we entered the Yale Bowl with no hopes of deriving any great meaning??nor did it ever come...
...Vladimir Nabokov once commented that “reality” was one of the few words in the English language that is meaningless without quotation marks. Reality TV gives this observation a whole new meaning??one that makes me wonder whether those who wish to follow in the footsteps of Britain’s newest talent would be better off had she, too, been a fairytale...