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The argument for relocating reading period starts from the assumption that an overwhelming number of Harvard students do not, in fact, adequately keep up with their assigned reading. This results in the frantic last-minute burst of catching-up that recurs every reading-period--an orgy that leaves little time...
Perhaps Sontag's greatest insight concerns the relationship of a photograph to its own context. She comments, "as Wittgenstein argued for words, that the meaning is the use--so for each photograph." She focuses attention on this use, to the immediate use--whether in a gallery or a newspaper, whether...
Sontag's arguments are eloquent and stimulating, posing necessary questions about the meaning and effect of the photography boom. But there is also a disturbing sense in which Sontag is unfair to photography, a sense in which she sounds very much the New York intellectual ready to reject photography for...
NOT ONLY does it bother Sontag that everybody takes pictures, it also bothers her that anything, anybody, can seem to have importance when photographed. "To photograph is to confer importance," she writes. But there is a different formulation of the relationship of photography to importance, a formulation that Sontag herself...
Mrs. Ruether starts with the premise that Christianity has a built-in tension. Jesus' original proclamation was an eschatological vision looking ahead to the end of the world; yet any church inevitably takes on cultural forms and thus looks backward into history. She concedes that the church as an...