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...merely unhappy in a vague and annoying post-graduate sort of way. He's the kind of filmmaker who thinks that if he sets his star to masturbating on camera, he's making a statement, when all he's actually doing is signifying the true spirit of his movie...
...every Briton is ready to join the environmental monkhood. There would go the budget holiday flights to Ibiza, for one thing. But to Smit, it's the spirit that matters, a spirit embodied in his Eden. "It's a horrible cliche, but part of our goal is to remake the world," he says. "We're here to help people realize that if they each do a few things, then times 6 billion, that adds...
...hair, Iweala’s novel tackles where war and cruelty intersect and the way that people can be corrupted by circumstances. Enough said. Of course Harvard and Yale have produced comparably great novelists, the same way we have comparably lackluster football teams. But for the sake of school spirit, I can argue that John H. Updike ’54 and Norman K. Mailer ’43 are objectively better than Tom Perrotta and Tom Wolfe. And, obviously, F. Scott Fitzgerald doesn’t matter...
...crowd that does make it out to the Bright will suffer the indignity of being dwarfed by the Cornell fans like never before. Even our school’s good name is at stake. The number of students at a Harvard game is, among other things, an expression of spirit, a declaration of Harvard pride. This weekend, thanks to the scheduling mishap, Harvard pride will be confined to New Haven...
...traditional oral culture is of great antiquity; their structure of myth is remarkably coherent and continuous across millenniums, not just centuries; and as anyone can see who visits some of the sacred cave sites scattered across northwestern Australia, their traditions of rock painting--animals and fish of every kind, spirit figures and the imposing, fearsome effigies of the great Rainbow Serpent--are as impressive as anything in the caves of Lascaux or Altamira and tens of thousands of years older. As far as we know, the Australian Aborigines stood at the very dawn of human imagemaking...