Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were exceedingly disappointed, but hardly surprised, to read The Crimson Staff's opinion of Adams House Interhouse dining policies (Editorial...
...lieu of the challenges of making a movie at once disturbing and funny, Very Bad Things makes, God help us, a point. Its "message" will be familiar to anyone who has read Lord of the Flies or anything else in the "civilzed people aren't really so civilized" genre. Perhaps the real horror of this movie is how the clich‚--which, like the Jaws or the "Jason" serieses, will never go away--has come back to terrorize us once again. Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) and Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz) are a happy couple, soon to be married. Kyle...
Richard Dawkins is not usually an author you read when you want to feel good about humanity. The Oxford professor is best known for writing The Selfish Gene, a book that theorizes that people are genetically predisposed to self-serving, exploitative behavior. People, according to Dawkins, never act in terms of what is good for the group, but only in terms of what is good for themselves. In the process of natural selection, altruists are gradually selected out, while cheaters and exploiters are left to propagate the earth and pass their genes onto more cheaters and exploiters...
...sounds dry and disheartening, it is. Dawkins himself laments that people who read his work sometimes walk away feeling crestfallen and "depressed." And so, Dawkins' latest book, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, resonates on a slightly more optimistic note. Although it is not an apologia for Dawkins' other books, it is a manual on how to read them. Dawkins contends that people habitually misconstrue science as deconstructive and demystifying. The average person, whose science background might not extend beyond a high school lab, has been programmed to set up a dichotomy of two domains...
...least one character has transcended the egocentric world, even as the seeds of the next chapter in Atlanta's power games are being sown. After getting through all 742 pages, one other fact remains clear: Tom Wolfe has done it again. A Man in Full is a thrilling read and an insightful (if not entirely original) vignette from one of the master chroniclers of the human condition...