Word: pipedreams
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...release a forth album—but it seems as though his words are beginning to be reflective of the contemporary creative condition. Today’s music scene is one in which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both naïve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall...
...Feinstein seem to give Mukasey the benefit of the doubt not from principle, but from cowardice. They are failing to stand up to an administration that has demonstrated willingness time and time again to compromise American values under the guise of protecting national security. They cling to the pipedream of Justice Department reform but endorse an attorney general who parrots the Bush administration on torture...
...quickly-changing nature of today’s business environment, and it becomes almost impossible for an institutional investor of Harvard’s size to completely separate itself from any segment of the global market. “Total divestment” is little more than a pipedream because there will always be some link to a questionable company, no matter how tenuous.Given this reality, the best the University can do is to be as vigilant as possible in trying to avoid indirectly holding a critical mass of the stock of companies from which it has directly divested...
...shouldn’t say and do. Yet much of the debate, from the O’Reilly Factor to the “Kremlin on the Charles,” has remained out of touch with the realities of campus activism. In fact, we are not rabblerousers with pipedream goals who like to make a scene. We are dissidents with purpose who want to remake our community, and in the process, stand in solidarity with communities around the world...
Imagine yourself at the dinner party from hell: terrible food, mutual contempt that’s almost palpable, the bibulous hostess who no longer cares what she says, and if that isn’t enough, inclement weather so bad any pipedream of escape vanishes into the fog. Now imagine yourself not as a participant, but rather as a passive observer, free to soak in and enjoy all that deliciously dark humor without all the accompanying awkwardness. If all this tickles you pink, you Wes Anderson loving noirist you, then be sure to check out “Dinner...