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That same week, a History and Literature senior turned in a thesis on "Batman and Changes in Comic-Book Storytelling"; and I read Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers for tutorial...
When so much of the national debate over higher education concerns which books we should read, it's hard not to think of this question as a crucial one. In our minds, the key issue becomes the assigned book--as if it were a selfsufficient entity--and not the way we read and think about...
...final "Great Books attitude" we retain too often is the assumption that whatever the rest of the world is thinking and doing is irrelevant: as long as we've read our book, thought about it and found our own piece of truth, who cares what the rest of humanity is up to? Of course, it is perfectly possible to read any book from Plato to Joseph Campbell with the rest of humanity in mind; it's just that it's a lot easier to read it with only the book itself in mind...
...disillusionment began when I read that Oliver North had spoken to the team before its 1988 Super Bowl victory over the hapless Denver Broncos...
...those William Safire wannabees who get huffy when someone misuses the word "disinterested," read no further. Popular culture has irretrievably eroded the meaning of the word "classic." A disc jockey at WSLQ in Roanoke, VA recently persuaded this listener to turn the dial when he announced, "Coming up next: A classic from...