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...less-enlightened day, students once browsed through the Courses of Instruction looking for classes whose descriptions were sympathetic to their own interests, perhaps checking afterwards the reviews of prior enrollees. Poor rubes! In this streamlined age, the process is inverted: first, come to the table with a number in mind; afterwards, you can bother with the actual topic and content of the course. The cluttered old catalog, with its idiosyncratic and long-winded descriptive paragraphs following the course titles, has been rendered obsolete by crisp tables of course titles each followed by a chain of 10 numbers. Nowadays, that?...
...antidote to the numbing effects of consumerism, statistics, and history. “Day” does what good literature is supposed to do, that is, not allow us to simplify away life. It deposits us in the most complex theater that exists, the human mind, and from there we watch protagonist Alfred F. Day struggle with the only two things perhaps equally complex, and unstintingly envisioned as such by Kennedy: war and love. Five years may have passed since World War II, but the eponymous Day, former Sergeant and gunner in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force...
...Jimmy Stewart storms the Senate and yells about some injustice while wearing the loosest suit imaginable. I wonder if that is what Barack Obama is going for. His jackets are gigantic. His pants flap in the wind. I realize he is skinny and has more important things on his mind or whatever, but considering that Michelle Obama is the best dressed at any of these functions, she probably understands the value of good tailoring. I don’t really understand why she isn’t sharing that knowledge with her husband. Recomendation: Go to Italy. By the time...
...sponsored by the NBCC. The quartet discussed February’s list, the best and worst recommendations they’d ever received, and just who has the authority to make one. Pinker has had plenty of experience with bestsellers. Both his 1999 book “How the Mind Works” and his latest book, “The Stuff of Thought,” made appearances on the New York Times Best Seller list. Pinker’s advice to fellow authors could as easily be applied by presidential hopefuls: remember that style matters, and don?...
...election for just this sort of eventuality. But the campaign for their support is a frustrating exercise for both candidates. Any commitments they manage to secure are etched in talcum powder; super-delegates don't have to make a choice until the convention, and they can change their mind an endless number of times between now and then...