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...single encounter between President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 quickly turned into a much larger and longer debate—encompassing such issues as the role of the intellectual in American society, the conduct of our rookie president and quasi-racism among Harvard’s upper-crust alumni...
...polemic. I like polemics, there is nothing wrong with writing polemics—I hope, for my own sake. But the point is that you are going to build up a certain public image, and it just seems that you (McCarthy) were suggesting that there was something quasi-racist about all these white alums having this impression that Cornel West must not deserve to be here because he is doing XYZ. I’m sure that there are such people, but I’m sure the majority of those white alums just have the impression of Cornel West...
...cover of her album bespeaks bling, she has more to offer. Track after track, she never lets up on the flow—or the venom—though her insistence occasionally gives way to repetition. The best tracks are those in which she forgoes the lackluster, quasi-operatic sampling for the rhymes she does best. Unfortunately, given the as yet unspectacular reception of her November release, the world may not be ready yet. Rating...
...play opens with black-caped ballim—the Biblical figures associated with war, pleasure, sacred prostitution and virginal sacrifice—chanting an opening chorus and lighting incense in a quasi-religious ceremony. With convincing performances turned in by Robert A. Hodgson ’05 and Michael E. Moss ’03, the four ballim constantly assume different roles in the play as they people Ba’al’s strange reality. They literally drag Ba’al into this dreamlike world and then test his moral resolve by slipping into characters that alternately...
...talking about, and it became the genre that it is, which is no genre, or many genres. And we talked about this when we were doing it. I connected to some stuff that happened when I was a little guy reading Ray Bradbury. I loved those interior kind of quasi-science fiction stories, and we just found ourselves there, and loved where we were...