Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...examination of what has brought us to where we are today. Underworld observes the transferal of the dominant systems of power and control from the government to the media. In Valparaiso, DeLillo explores how life is to be lived in the world thus created: the media, it would seem, is just as empty as that which preceded...
...dichotomy between "All You Need is Love" and "It's Only Love" doesn't appear to be reconcilable. How can love be "All You Need" when it is qualified as "Only"? "Eh, it's no big deal," the mop-toppers seem to say. But there was a tone of irony with the title "It's Only Love." Lennon and McCartney are in fact saying that love is the only thing...
...feel a certain way. Harvard is a land of opportunity and tries to help students make choices; the help is not as good as it should be, I think, and better advising is an important objective. But ensuring that students feel a certain way about their choices does not seem to me a rational goal...
...recruiting gaffs didn't end just there. My subconscious always seemed to well up to the surface, turning every first-round resume interview into a therapy session. An interviewer would ask me about my extracurriculars, we would get to talking about competitiveness at Harvard, and I would finally add, "Yeah, a lot of people here seem to do things because they feel it's expected of them." "Hmm," my interviewer would smile, "I hear it gets particularly bad around this time of the year." Sooner or later, my interviewers got a whiff of my real interests, the way police dogs...
...watcheable soap-opera: "Dawson's Creek" featuring skinny guys in tassel loafers. In fine post-adolescent form, the play melodramatizes the trivial and passes lightly over the truly significant. It is hard to imagine anybody in the audience actually caring about the conflicts the play poses; even the protagonists seem strangely nonchalant about what would strike most mature people as the play's central conflict--an alleged teenage suicide--preferring instead to fight about who is dating whom and what pain is caused by the breaking of a teenage heart...