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...destroyed through our lifetime; a higher number of people have died in a lot of combat situations. This, you can’t quite come to terms with it, you can’t quite grapple with it. It’s a really direct challenge to our idea of??as many people have said—to our idea of modernity, to our idea of progress, to our idea of secular democracy. Someone said, “You can’t have that, we can take that away.” That is what everyone...
Return to Central starts out promisingly. “What You’re Afraid Of?? is one of those perfect pop songs, with swirling synths and surprisingly warm vocals from singer Manda Rin building anticipation before the guitar crunch and insanely catchy chorus bust everything up in a climax of euphoria. Backed by cinematic strings, “The End Starts Today” is a positively grandiose affair, indicative of the major change Bis have undertaken. The raw immediacy of their past has been displaced by an apparent craving for a deeper sound—exemplified...
...still fighting the good fight, or “In memory of . . .” someone who had finished the race; occasionally these were set above a photograph. Around the five-mile mark the walkers from Eliot passed one man walking alone, an “In memory of?? across his back. His stride was firm and his focus imperturbable—in a fearsome, solitary quest to do honorably by the loved one whom cancer had taken away...
...about any specific plans for the University, preferring to reiterate his broader goals of promoting undergraduate education, “extending the University’s reach” through technology, improving the science programs, and—consistent with the other presidential administration he was once a part of??“planning for Harvard in the 21st century...
...memoir section, Gornick introduces more of her philosophy on the memoir, its definition and value. “Modern memoir posits that the shaped presentation of one’s own life is of value to the disinterested reader only if it dramatizes and reflects sufficiently on the experience of??movement away from the murk of being told who you are…toward the clarity of that identifies accurately the impulses of the self.” What follows this definition is some of the finest criticism in the book, in large part because she remains true...