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...June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a stark monument that compels visitors not to revel in the glory of war, but to reflect on its sorrows...
...therapies derived from them, but also about the lasting importance of Freud's descriptions of the mind. The collapse of Marxism, the other grand unified theory that shaped and rattled the 20th century, is unleashing monsters. What inner horrors or fresh dreams might arise should the complex Freudian monument topple as well...
Flat landscape aside, Boston is a great place to take long rambling walks. One of my favorites is through Charlestown and across the bridge into the North End and Haymarket. It's difficult to be an American History concentrator and not find this area fascinating. The Bunker Hill monument even allows me the rare Boston privilege of climbing a hill, something for which I occasionally get nostalgic. The Hill also puts everything into proper historical perspective: Forget the battle itself; at the time the monument was built, Seattle was barely a village...
...writings were to have served as Bob Packwood's monument, to be published years after his death. For more than two decades, every morning for 30 minutes, he scribbled his recollections of the day before, thoughts both philosophical and quotidian, ranging from political ruminations to juicy gossip. As he described it, the writings contained "the hopes and the dreams and the despairs...
...peed on a Harvard monument lately? "No, but I did pee on the Meditation School last night...