Word: noam
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...point of Smart People (which is directed by Noam Murro) is to return its anti-hero to something like civility, which is not exactly a startlingly original comic notion. Neither is its familiar academic setting, where so many mid-list novels are set. Indeed, we are told by Mark Poirier (who wrote the screenplay) that he originally conceived the story as a novel about university life, which I suppose somewhat limits its appeal to a mass audience. That said, its pretty conventional characters are often pretty funny. Or maybe I should say, surprisingly interesting. Ellen Page (recently of Juno ) brings...
...Iraq fresh from a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford and “Elvis Is Titanic” reflects his intellectual bent. The early chapters of the books are couched in the historic intellectual debate over Western involvement in the Middle East, as he cites everyone from T.S. Eliot to Noam Chomsky to the “9/11 Commission Report...
...Most Emailed” list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...addition to teaching Mathematics 55, winning the prestigious Putnam Prize three times, and being the youngest person ever to become a full Harvard professor, Professor Noam D. Elkies has yet another accomplishment to add to his name. On Saturday, Elkies gave an awe-inspiring performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy” as part of the second concert of the Bach Society (BachSoc) Orchestra’s season...
...Noam Chomsky. But common sense tells me that language evolved so that we humans can communicate with one another as individuals. I, perhaps naively but nonetheless firmly, believe that the more that we intercommunicate on an interpersonal level, the better off the world will be. The important thing is not “the purity of language X” but rather: Does one’s message get through...