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...sitting in this Core class and the professor begins to discuss St. Augustine's Confessions, in which the great philosopher/priest pours his heart out Oprah-style, revealing all his sins and indiscretions to the readers (and God) in the hope of salvation. Among other things, the saint apparently thought about sex a lot and liked to destroy orchards...
...news, meanwhile, is that we have no culture of our own. Oh, we have "painters," yes--just take a trot through the Carpenter Center, or the modernist wing at the Fogg. And we have "writers," absolutely--turn on Oprah's Book Club, she'll introduce you to them. "Musicians," too--that Eminem fellow is pretty popular, right? And we've got plenty of great minds--most of them tenured at Harvard, if you believe the promotional literature...
...group huddled together consoling one another with affirmations. Even though my learning curve was taking a nosedive, standing there complimenting and being complimented reminded me of something more worthwhile to remember than the backward swizzle: how kind people can be. At the risk of sounding a little too Oprah, the loveliest thing about the lessons wasn't the halfhearted compliments of the instructors. It was the shared glances of my bumbling fellow students--the solidarity of the incompetent. Don't knock it. I received the first nonironic "You go, girl!" of my life, and so I went, on bended knee...
...amphibious. Imagine being governed by columnists, commentators and talk show hosts. Envision a Cabinet consisting of Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, Don Imus, Robert Novak, George Will, Tim Russert, Eleanor Clift, Peter Jennings, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd, John McLaughlin, Ollie North, Mort Kondracke, Jack Germond, Bill Press, Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Springer - all shouting at once, interrupting one another, sneering, one-upping, gesticulating, rolling their eyes, looking for all the world like a classroom full of first graders waving their hands, all seized at the same time by a desperate urgency to get to the boys' and girls' rooms...
...Campaigning on Oprah b. Making Oprah wish Al Haig was still campaigning c. The winner of O magazine's "What I Like About Me" essay contest d. Flogging a book...