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...Chaudhuri matter these days? One then begins to demur: Is Philip Larkin really a "minor" poet? Is the Caribbean really a place of "spiritual emptiness"? Finally one balks completely - at Naipaul's tiresome insistence on referring to the black population of Trinidad as "Negroes," for example, or at his relentless tone of acidity and disdain (India has "no autonomous intellectual life;" both the BBC and Oxford are "provincial and mean and common...
...Inevitably, some purists are voicing objections to what they see as the bastardization of a Chinese cultural icon. Zhang's relentless promotion of modernized Kunqu - he thinks nothing of hiring out performers for appearances in shopping malls and as entertainment at A-list cocktail parties - hasn't helped. "Kunqu should be left alone," says Gu Duhuang, a veteran Kunqu director from Suzhou and one of the most virulent critics. "It is heritage and no heritage needs to be modernized." Not all young people are convinced either. "The true beauty of Kunqu is in its singing, as well as the extreme...
...marketing. Toscani says people react to it because many suffer from a kind of "social anorexia" of deprivation and disappointment amidst the abundance of modernity. The nude image of the emaciated 26-year-old French actress in poses we are used to seeing struck by fashion models is indeed relentless in its rawness. Toscani says. "I always try to strip away and strip away until I arrive at what is essential...
...avoidance.” Seated casually on sofas in the Barker Center, professors shared comical anecdotes about students who came to office hours, recalling one pupil whom Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue nicknamed “The Ocean” for his relentless stream of questions. 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, hastened to add that students don’t need to come in with a specific question or share some fascinating talent. “Just normal people...
...Rice has certainly shown determination to meet the challenge - her schedule is relentless, her words forceful and urgent. And while doubts abound and crucial aspects of the conference are yet to be settled, Rice insists she wants real results. "We have better things to do than invite people to Annapolis for a photo op," she said Monday in Ramallah. Yet the nature of some of her meetings and the content of some of her statements hint at the serious limitations on what she - and those in the Bush Administration who support her efforts - can accomplish. Rice may insist that "Israelis...