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...sharpest young minds lining up scores-deep in order to secure a minute of monitored levitation. Now and then a muddling passerby will accidentally wander into the swing’s ambit and, after a tussle of shouts, duck for safety. Sometimes the swing will make rubber-to-skull contact, and an uncomfortable and embarrassed student will bowl over onto the grass. In the true fashion of a totem, though, the gentle swinging will stir deep memories in all of us—memories of childhoods real or imagined, individual and collective apparitions of an idyllic pastoral existence...
...There may be a comical aspect in gazing too deeply at the tire’s inky rubber darkness. But the choice of the swing at the center of the iconography of Harvard’s crown jewel social event reveals something about what Harvard students are, what they imagine themselves to be, and how they animate their bizarre concepts of fun. From one direction, the tire swing is just paraphernalia for an afternoon of enjoyment. From another, though, it is a semiotic icon for the unique Harvard imagination of leisure...
...debut, “The Big Come Up,” the Keys have been the standard-bearers of self-produced, self-recorded, basement-tape rebellion. Their high-water marks, 2003’s “Thickfreakness” and 2004’s “Rubber Factory,” distilled their blues formalism and lo-fi aesthetic into a highly evolved and deeply primal sound. But in fall 2006, singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney were approached by eccentric producer-auteur Brian Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse)—best known for his work...
...also came to respect the way Catholic leaders in the U.S. went about their business. A current (non-American) CDF official notes that the U.S. church is the only one that keeps a "serious" doctrinal office rather than an unthinking rubber stamp or an old-boys' club; when conflicts arise, its bishops are actually prepared to discuss them. Moreover, says Levada, "he seems to recognize that we're plain speakers. We don't hide behind words...
...should; and they should vote for those candidates who have a strong interest in improving higher education, who can work cooperatively with others, who are open-minded, who are seriously interested in the issues higher education faces today, and who are willing to express their views and not simply rubber stamp whatever is presented to them. These are not necessarily those alums who are the biggest cheerleaders or the biggest donors to their alma mater...