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...amusing to hear about Harvard’s bicentennial, there is much more to Gura’s complex history of American Transcendentalism. Starting with the Transcendentalists’ European influences, he traces the shifting ideas and proponents of the movement. Rather than try to reduce the multi-faceted phenomenon to one hardened definition, Gura acknowledges the subtleties of the movement and allows the Transcendentalists to speak for themselves. Gura is at his most dynamic when he relates specific philosophical debates, such as the substantial discourse that surrounded Emerson’s speech to the graduating class of Harvard?...
...intellectual community traditionally had a strong opposition to popular culture? Jean-Baptiste De Borman, BRUSSELS That was a phenomenon of the 1950s and early '60s. Then the landscape changed a lot. My generation was the first to take pop culture into serious consideration. Now I'm sometimes under the impression that intellectuals are too concerned with popular culture. As soon as you learn about low culture, you become so fascinated by it that you become a member of the sect. You discover that comic books have a language of their own, and even though you were an intellectual before...
...STING Spanish King Juan Carlos I made headlines when he cut off a ranting Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez at a Chilean summit by saying "Why don't you shut up?" Now the comment has become a cultural phenomenon...
...Internet usage entail to fully enjoy this often saddening chronicle of lives destroyed by virtual gossip.Earlier this year, Miss Teen South Carolina’s unabashedly awful attempt to answer the question of why so many Americans cannot find the United States on a map quickly became an Internet phenomenon. In the years before the Internet, a few might have chuckled as they watched the TV, some may even have shown their friends a clip on a recorded VHS, but her mistake would undoubtedly be soon buried under the weight of real news. Not so today, when the embarrassing video...
...hard to turn down companies that throw such lavish events for students. Originally hailing from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, graduates often leave Harvard to concentrate in the financial centers of New York City and London rather than returning to their places of origin. The phenomenon is called “brain drain”; disadvantaged regions send their brightest students away to schools like Harvard to be educated, hoping that they will return with the solutions to the problems facing their homelands. But many choose instead to apply for work visas in the United States...