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...story of triumph, but as the foundation for the non-violent direct action civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr., the story of Gandhi was legitimately hailed as the most socially pertinent and meaningful non-documentary motion picture to emerge this year. What better way to pat oneself on the back than liberally to reward one's most socially responsible product? But in recognizing itself as a morally sound group, do the pundits, and beautiful people of the Academy appoint themselves as society's dictators of true intellectual value? Does Richard Attenborough, who reportedly devoted more than...
...always easy, of course, to tell oneself that "everyone" is doing what one secretly wants to do. It is easy to say that this is what the smart people are doing, the winners, the people who know how to beat the system. Easy but wrong. People who lie and cheat on their taxes are neither smart nor winners; they are simply cheats and liars. In the end, the money that they steal is not being stolen from a faceless government; it is being stolen from their honest neighbors who as a result must pay not only their own taxes...
...never quite imagine people younger than oneself having a plausibly magical song of their own. It is a trick of age and generational perspective. Parents believe that the songs their children cherish, far from amassing rich emotional associations, are merely destroying brain cells. The workings of special songs are necessarily subjective, and they promote a kind of hubris. Still, even allowing for that effect, it is sometimes hard to imagine what private anthems will arise from, say, punk or new wave music. Are there couples now that will for years grow mistily tender when they hear a ditty by Meat...
...main difficulty with a Special Concentration is lack of departmental resources. One's "department" consists of only oneself and a faculty advisor, who is responsible for the bureaucracy of the program but not necessarily for its instruction. Thus, the student must also locate tutors, advisors, and thesis readers (in the honors option) willing to lend their time and energy. Physiological psychology has recently asserted itself as a well-paved alternate track, but students attempting other innovations are usually not so lucky. Often, finding anyone qualified in a special area is difficult enough without also having to beg them...
...books simply because they seem a little self-righteous. Their very existence implies ignorance of boorishness on the part of the reader, as if to say, "You don't realize the child's talent, but here is overwhelming evidence to throw in your face. " The impulse is to brace oneself for the challenge prepare to read the most astonishing and brilliant verse ever written by a child...