Word: speakes
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...Irish and English peoples--into a literary and cultural realm. This new translation of Beowulf, then, is more of a gesture of commonality than an aggressive assertion of distinction or superiority. As much as their violent history has pulled them apart, the English and the Irish do at least speak the same language. This helps explain why Heaney did not necessarily resent his inclusion is an anthology of "English" literature compiled by Faber and Faber, Co. Though he did write a poem that asserted his passport was definitely green (the color of the Irish passport), Heaney did not think...
...sound is sparser, funkier,still aggressive and loud, but significantly morerepetitive, less interesting and lessground-breaking than Big Black. My roommate heard"My Black Ass," the first song on their '94 LPAt Action Park, and asked, "Is this RageAgainst the Machine?" (It only took me a week orso to speak to him again.) Steve has announcedthat all Shellac songs are about either Canada orbaseball. Steve is now 36, and his indiecredibility is fading fast...
...hardly be accidental that this brilliantmusical thunderbolt occurs after the album hasofficially ended. Mutations, Beck implies,is no monumental sequel to Odelay; theseMutations are just enjoyable moments on theway to the Next Big Thing. The real second datewith Beck Hansen, so to speak, is still to come.If this album isn't Odelay: The Return,perhaps it shouldn't have to be. The loose soundof Mutations has its own ample pleasures:unpretentious, old-fashioned, out-of-tune, like anamusing detour off the highway across America. Thetumultuous vanguard Beck created on Odelaywill still be there, hopefully, when he goeshunting...
...course, language doesn't call women "sluts"; people do. Changing language can only succeed insofar as we change the attitudes of those who speak it. Otherwise, people will consider linguistic alterations a laughable outgrowth of political correctness, forced upon them by an overly sensitive establishment. Society will remain just as frustrated if political correctness leads only to the switching of a few pronouns, and not to thinking deeply about the real nature of gender and gender equality...
Jessica A. Bowen '01 respected Whitman's rightto speak her mind. "I don't think that ifpolitical figures come to the Forum they shouldwithhold their partisan opinion," she said. "Idon't expect to agree with everything that's said...