Word: nothingism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under our current social arrangement, college is the bridge to adulthood. The purpose of a liberal arts education is purportedly to broaden the mind and expose students to the wealth of collected human wisdom. Harvard has certainly exposed me to much of that wisdom, but only as the object of...
It's not that the movie is awful. There are a few funny jokes; there are some attractive actors; it has a beginning, middle and end. It's just that to watch it is a complete forfeiture of experience. There's nothing there, just fluff, and you could have thought...
The stage of the Agassiz Theatre is lined with cardboard columns. Strewn across the boards are big, half-painted set pieces--platforms akimbo, colliding, stairs aimed into nothing. I feel like I've walked into the closing scene of a tectonic morality play. Overhead, lights are just swinging into place...
This is the dress rehearsal, but so far nothing seems ready. The scene is unclothed, the lights are out, the curtains malcoordinated. And yet as the tensed wrist of the harpsichordist travels across the tuning pegs, as the organ's pitch is finally affixed, as each musician is gathered into...
"Nothing denies human liberty so much as the total absence of money," he said, calling this "liberty" something civil libertarians ignore.