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FIRST PARADOX: Barry Lyndon, a story of an 18th century Irish gentleman-rogue, is the first novel of a great 19th century writer, William Makepeace Thackeray. It shows early signs of a genius that would nourish only after creative struggle and personal adversity. In time, this forgotten book becomes the basis for the tenth feature film by a well-established, well-rewarded 20th century artist-Director Stanley Kubrick. In it, he demonstrates the qualities that eluded Thackeray: singularity of vision, mature mastery of his medium, near-reckless courage in asserting through this work a claim not just to the distinction...
...through five decades, they have never neglected their primary obligation: to nourish the comic spirit, to make the risible visible in times of war and economic distress and social chaos. As this warm, hilarious collection demonstrates, despite the changing boundaries of artistic license and comic liberty, The New Yorker cartoonist has always known exactly where to draw the line...
...success at fashioning pluralistic solutions to the conflicting claims of its numerous ethnic subcultures. Over time this process has allowed successive generations of Americans to design a dialectically unique cultural-political synthesis which is general or universal enough to sustain a successful nation-state yet parochial enough to nourish a kaleidoscopic subsystem of ethnic particularisms--some originating and gaining substance solely within the American nation (e.g., Mormons...
Such events nourish him. He has just finished attending the Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Mich. That goes on the list with the Holland Tulip Festival and the Virginia Apple Blossom Festival. One of his happiest afternoons in his first year at the White House was taking the Soviet cosmonauts to the Alexandria, Va., firemen's picnic...
...this is that it is now just about the only philosophy program in the country whose graduates can find jobs after completing their degrees. Philosophy jobs are hard to come by, but Harvard graduates are finding them. Harvard graduates are finding them. Harvard's reputation for excellence seems to nourish itself regardless of the hollowness at the core. The prestige of having studied under a Harvard Heavy at Harvard apparently carries more weight than the reality of an incomplete and frustrating education...