Word: rant
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...more grateful to the tutors, administrators, dining hall staff, nightwatchpeople and "chief and coach" who have made my life so lovely. Having always enjoyed the opportunity to find a cup of coffee late at night and play with a tutor's young child and seemingly endless chances to rant with a brilliant future law-school professor about the strange journalistic mantra of meta-reportage, perhaps I protest too much about Harvard's pampering...
...moms have gone to at least one Roots show; even vaster multitudes lovingly remember Run DMC shows; Goodie Mob's originality on stage is no secret; supposedly Ice Cube can move crowds; Common and Black Star seem to be starting a buzz; and, almost unanimously, heads across the planet rant and rave about KRS-ONE's act as simply the illest of all time...
...before the English concentrators in the audience begin to rant over these naive poetic presumptions, I will remind myself just in time that great poetry extends beyond merely the spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings and into a realm where form nearly always matters. "There are many people who appreciate the expression of sincere emotion in verse, and there is a smaller number of people who can appreciate technical excellence," T.S. Eliot once wrote, as though speaking directly in Hollander's defense...
...torsos. But is it the fault of Vogue editors and Aaron Spelling that we do so? Skewering the popular wisdom that beauty is a social construct, this Harvard psychologist argues that we ogle such features because they radiate the health and fertility our species needs to survive. Avoiding ideological rant, Etcoff employs rigorous scientific research and amusing detail to create a great read, albeit one that won't become Naomi Wolf's favorite...
...however, politicians across the country rant and rave about how the American people are as well off as ever before. The economy is booming, education is improving. This is the perfect time to enact environmental reform...