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...second piece. Mahler's life, particularly where romance was concerned, was known to be tumultous--he fell in love and planned to run away with a married woman but failed to show up at their meeting place and subsequently threw himself into composing, the program informs the reader. Many of Mahler's works reflect his own inner turmoil, and Symphony No. 1 in D is no exception...
...book entitled Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Gabler traces the development of our society's obsession with entertainment and entertainers. He advances example after example, until even the skeptical reader can't help but wonder whether our society is going down the tubes...
...just about any sentence from the book, chosen at random, one finds use of an unusual but exactly fitting word. Gabler possesses an unusually large vocabulary. His word choice is always precise and ingenious and leaves the reader wondering why most of these extraordinary words are not more common in writing and speech...
...unimagineably horrible tale, which Appelfeld manages to recount in completely nonjudgmental strokes. Ultimately, it's clear why Appelfeld has been called a "worthy successor to Kafka" with his surreal, yet plausible, plots. Though the legacy of the Holocaust is never explicit, The Conversion often seems a device forcing the reader to question reality, and our ability to believe (or ignore) its ramifications...
...bulldozer that will likely build that man a bigger, better, more efficiently constructed home financed at lower cost, I can justify my career very easily. Can those with the toothpicks do the same? Kaustuv Sen '99 is an economics concentrator in Eliot House. He is also The Crimson's reader representative...