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...hanged for murder in 1880, still remains a Down Under hero and legend. He left behind some papers, which Australian-born author Peter Carey deftly incorporates into an exculpatory fictional autobiography of enormous imaginative power, the story of a normally flawed man driven to desperate acts for the sake, ultimately thwarted, of self-defense...
...fill it, but so too will Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Moreover, the fragile coalition of Palestinian groups that make up the PA will likely dissolve, as key figures vie for power. Some splinter groups from the old Palestinian Liberation Organization might even make unholy alliances with Hamas for the sake of political gain...
...don’t just want bravado for bravado’s sake, just as we don’t want to watch the Cleveland Cavaliers just because they play a sport. Listening to an imperfect, inarticulate statement of ego actually is offensive, not unlike a Detroit Lions game. The sport-to-soul continuum works both ways. We care about quality. Deep down, what we really want is eloquent egotism...
Running parallel to the anti-war effort during the 1960s and 70s was Pop Art, which, like the Fluxus group, adopted everyday images. However, for Pop artists, these images became art for art’s sake. While Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol replicated images of consumer culture, rock and roll’s rebellion turned inwards toward the self. Studio 54’s house band, the Velvet Underground, took introspection to its apex, while No Wave bands would perform audienceless in the New York streets as firm proponents of music for music’s sake...
...tragic struggle to fight back against the dead eyes of the Harvard networking machine, I can’t help but think that I may have thrown hundreds of babies out with their bath water. My overzealous self-righteous condemnation of meeting people for the sake of meeting people, has, predictably, caused me to meet no one. But what...