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...lack of order and refinement in the world to which Pinsky is reacting. His diction is carefully designed to extract maximum emotion with minimal effort, and allusions to current events permeate the pages. Most poems are composed of short stanzas that propel the poetry at a fast clip and reflect the spontaneous nature of Pinsky’s thoughts. Pinsky’s confusion emanates from each page as he jumps from idea to idea with each successive couplet. Each poem, he writes, “is acting dumb...in a smart-ass way involving the contradiction of naming...
...Thus when I reflect on the paragons of personal style in today’s world, I focus, not on women who dress well (style doesn’t necessarily have to have a positive connotation), but instead on people who we as a viewing public know are not taking advice from anyone about how they dress. They, in an age of micromanaged, pressurized women, are taking their cues from no one but their own crafty little brains. They take no prisoners and for this you must admire them...
...disclosed the price it paid for this substantial acquisition, these televisions and kiosks usually retail for a combined minimum of about $75,000. For an organization that continually cites lack of funds as a justification for its refusal to expand dining hours and options, such a purchase seems to reflect a poor sense of priority. Even though these monitors and kiosks were purchased with proceeds from retail operations designated for special projects, these new additions to our 13 campus dining halls—which enable students to order bagged meals and retrieve nutrition information, which is already easily accomplished online?...
...this is a day to transcend the ordinary, if it is a rare moment when we gather not just as Harvard, but with a wider world of scholarship, teaching and learning, it is a time to reflect on what Harvard and institutions like it mean in this first decade of the 21st century...
...installation, he said, “is a time when someone can step back a little bit from what is absolutely current and try to reflect about the nature of these institutions and what some of their problems are, but also what some of their importance...