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Sontag explores the way in which photography affects one's experience of the world, of other people, of oneself. By certifying and documenting photographs become more important than the actual experience, enduring after the experience itself has passed. The world becomes something to be photographed, something to "shoot," something to put down on paper and look at later. Photographs are the standard by which the world is judged. Sontag describes the disappointment of tourists who find the sights on their vacations less exciting than photographs had led them to expect...
...year ago, it required the diligence of a scholar or the enthusiasm of a displaced patriot to inform oneself on current events in Central and Eastern Europe. It is good to see that the Iron Curtain is now rusting on both sides...
...response to Koblitz' charges, Folland said that Phi Beta Kappa realized there were other ways to distinguish oneself besides academics, "but Phi Beta Kappa does not exist to recognize political activities...
...uncanny way this phrase from Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde epitomizes my exact sentiments as I left Sanders Theatre Friday night after hearing the HRO's second concert of the season. It was one of those concerts at which one wished one could immerse oneself totally in the music and forgive all flaws in the performance...
...their careers. Partly they seek to break the routine of study in this way, but many also want the opportunity for encounters with other kinds of people, other ways of life. Sometimes, of course, for both the students and non-students, the desire to press, extend, and expand oneself takes the form of experiments with drugs, drink, and fast driving, sexual conquests, and other understandable but seldom self-fulfilling ways...