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...firebrand at times, Summers didn’t hesitate to speak his mind??sometimes at the cost of alienating supporters. He had a reputation for being tactless. While his analysis was always prescient, colleagues say, it was often ruthless...
Hopefully, in time and physical therapy, I’ll recover full motion in my arm. Already, my eye looks a bit better. But I winced when I heard the biker’s question. I remembered my impact. In my mind??s eye I saw that car door open in front of me again, that split-second before I was screaming in pain and in fury, at the door, the driver and the world that let this happen to me, now, right before I was supposed to go snowboarding with my family over break, right before...
...upcoming holiday movie season follows the rules of Quidditch surprisingly closely. There are Quaffles such as Oceans 11 and Lord of the Rings—flashy movies that are guaranteed to score. There are Bludgers such as Ali and A Beautiful Mind??heavy-handed dramas that smack you over the head with the weight of their anticipated Oscar nominations. And of course, for the discerning movie-goers, seekers that they are, there is that golden snitch—that highly desired and gossamer film that flies high above all the others. This season, that golden film seems...
...infamous instructions. These radical scripts suggested that art no longer consisted of impersonal objects meant to be studied and admired; instead, the audience now played a central role in “realizing” a work of art, which was as much “in the mind?? as on the gallery wall. In their focus on process rather than product, these pieces also show the influence of the Fluxus group, a loose association of conceptual artists active throughout the 60s and 70s. The group’s name, Latin for “flow...
...lives are we so absolutely free to live the life of the mind, to engage completely with a world of ideas. Here, we take momentary refuge in great works of literature, feats of science, narratives of history, learning from those who have lived the life of the mind??who lived well, nobly and freely. As University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, said in his inaugural address more than a 100 years ago, more than anything else, a liberal education creates good citizens. And ultimately, isn’t this the measure of a great university...