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...Even conscious volunteers, however, can make the mistake of being too na??ve. Some students may have the notion that their work will be instantly helpful and life changing...
...with its river housing: Just two weeks ago, for example, Winthrop House’s gym flooded with human excrement. A normal person may consider sewage in the gym to be less of a service than a threat to public health, but that’s a na??ve dichotomy. A threat to public health can also be a service. Yes, the service that Harvard provides through such sanitation (or lack thereof) in the river houses is that same service cited by many fathers and grandfathers retelling their tales of childhood: building character.All around the river houses, stories...
With his latest mixtape, “Harlem’s American Gangster,” rapper Jim Jones attempts to present a depiction of Harlem street life as only a native of Harlem could do. Unfortunately, Jones fails, offering instead the conventional definition of gangsta rap that the na??ve have come to accept and the knowledgeable have begun to ignore. Released on February 19th, “Harlem’s American Gangster” was not compiled as a bona fide album but as a mixtape in response to Brooklyn-born...
...talented rapper.While Mos Def’s shortcomings in Black’s shadow are understandable, “Be Kind Rewind” stumbles from start to finish. Despite showcasing some of Gondry’s finest visual work, the film as a whole lacks an earnestness, a na??veté, that came so effortlessly in his previous works. As silly and loveable as they may be, the characters’ relationships with one another only act as a pasteboard to the service of the plot, which itself acts as an excuse to watch Gondry show...
...though his words are beginning to be reflective of the contemporary creative condition. Today’s music scene is one in which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both na??ve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall short of the highs reached by a century?...