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...again, Schami's narrative tactic seems more like salesmanship. He uses this structure not for any purpose so much as to revel in it for its sake. Modern authors like Calvino use a similar framework to lay bare all the peculiar social and intellectual conventions of reading , to strike at the very heart of our understanding of narrative, to unravel the fabric of reality-to bring the universe of perception to its knees. Schami uses it because it's cool and exotic...
Finally, Harvard first-year students are seeing the light. They now revel in violence and want to assassinate each other like healthy, red-blooded Americans raised on television and rap. Rather than quashing the fun, Harvard administrators should embrace this game rooted in violence, which is, after all, as American as motherhood, apple pie or intercollegiate football. It's a chance to improve Harvard's image...
...biology than patriarchy. Even after the most egalitarian of educations, for instance, women tend to be more nurturing than men and to need things like security and commitment in order to be happy. Men, on the other hand, tend to be more aggressive and authoritarian. They also tend to revel in insecurity and shun commitment. Despite the many obstacles encouraging women to the contrary, women tend to want children and the chance to stay at home with them; men tend to do better competing in the workplace because of their different needs and dispositions...
...horn section. When Orange Juice signed to a major label, the evil corporate geniuses who did the signing persuaded them to add trumpets, backing vocals, and other extraneous gauzy trappings: if some songs on You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (the first released Orange Juice LP) could properly revel in the resulting luxury, others sank into bombast...
...incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a stark monument that compels visitors not to revel in the glory of war, but to reflect on its sorrows...