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...hour and a half. Often inaugural addresses contain lists—of a new president’s specific goals or programs. But lists seem too constraining when I think of what today should mean; they seem a way of limiting rather than unleashing our most ambitious imaginings, our profoundest commitments...
...Lists seem too constraining when I think of what today should mean," Faust said early in the speech to a crowd that included members of her extended family and representatives of universities around the world. "They seem a way of limiting rather than unleashing our most ambitious imaginings, our profoundest commitments...
...passivity: inert flesh encapsulated for a leap of faith that may be (we tell ourselves) as statistically acceptable as ever, but psychologically harder now. The passengers on Flight 800 began a trajectory to the City of Light and ended, after a few minutes, in a burst, and then the profoundest blackness. An arc of time interrupted by eternity...
...read again, because the words are frozen upon the page and therefore have a sort of timeless status. TV rushes headlong through real time, and given the constrictions of schedule, it is often a second-rate instrument with which to pursue the truth. The written word can commit the profoundest treacheries with the truth, but the hope of writing is at least to preserve the active integrity of the brain that is receiving the words. Television, flowing into an inherently passive mind, sometimes has darker ambitions...
...Shah Zaman tritely concludes, "maybe love is a fiction, but it is the profoundest of all" and he and Doony decide to just wait until tomorrow to act, one is left with a frustrating sense of bewilderment. Which path in feminism is the drama supporting--aggressive separateness or passive complacency...