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...Shock...
...huge shock, just more of a disappointment,” tri-captain Jen Ahn said...
...music in this way is, of course, an imprecise science. There are other ways to interpret our favorite bands shifting from bright to dark, or from abstract to political, other ways to read the rise of angry white rap; and there are, obviously, counterexamples. Marilyn Manson’s shock-rock, after all, peaked at about the same time as the internet boom. But Marilyn Manson is a countercultural figure, not a figure of the modern American Zeitgeist. Manson will be remembered as a diversion, but our memories of 2002 may well be soundtracked by Eminem, who tapped something...
...read Luke Smith’s op-ed piece (“Bring Back the Dead White Men,” Nov. 6) with one curry bowl-full of shock and two of amusement. Smith apparently wants to impose a whitewashed curricular canon on all Harvard students, no doubt in order to protect those values of “tolerance for many different ethnic and gendered perspectives” that makes “Western society better than its alternatives...
...posters, I did not think they could possibly come up with a campaign that bothered me more. It’s pretty hard to follow enlarged color photographs of fetuses and cutesy sayings like, “I’ve developed toes!” They went for shock value, they targeted emotions and preyed on guilt. And yet this year, I find their campaign much more maddening...