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Brideshead Revisited has become one of the inescapable cultural objects of our - comparatively - recent times. Many otherwise sober critics and literary scholars regard the novel as Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece. I've always disagreed. I think his Sword of Honor trilogy is his great work - infinitely sadder and wiser - though for fall-about merriment it's hard to beat Scoop...
...Jack Kerouac. Whatever you think of his feverish prose ("The charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power ..."), in one lovely line Kerouac got the book just right. "After seeing these pictures," he wrote, "you end up finally not knowing anymore whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin...
...other, sadder truth is that the foreign films shown here, and at big festivals like Berlin, Venice, Toronto and New York, have never had less an impact on the average U.S. moviegoer than they do now. Long gone is the time when every American with a pretense to culture felt obliged to know all about ten or twenty top European or Asian directors. (Long gone is the time when Americans felt required to have a pretense to culture, let alone the real thing.) The winners of Cannes' top prize, the Palme d'Or, used to be guaranteed a healthy...
...Still, despite the financial benefits of migration for poor rural communities such as Peretu, one of the sadder side effects has been documented in a reported published last year by the Soros Foundation. It found that around 17% of all junior high school students - some 170,000 children - have one or both parents working abroad...
Despite proclaiming myself a Duke fan, I’ve been reading the University of North Carolina’s newspaper a lot recently. I wish I could say this was for bracket research, but the Final Four has become a diversion from the sadder news: the March 6 murder of Eve Marie Carson, the 22-year-old student body president...