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...such work currently on view, but it is not the only one. You may recall the recent Avenue Montaigne, in which a young waitress finds herself mixed up with an insecure actress, a great pianist withdrawing from performing and an art collector selling his collection. It has a chipper spirit, and, in the end, things work out all right for all concerned, yet it also carries with it an air of regret, a sense that life is harder, less rewarding than its many characters would like it to be. It's a movie the regretful spirit of which is somewhat...
...Their more affluent peers—in the spirit of modesty, no doubt—prefer to make intimations of English country living, with green Barbour coats and tartan scarves. Even gaudy plastic jewelry is evidence of a campy sophistication, and can compensate for an otherwise dowdy wardrobe. Again, few students consciously intend to define themselves by class, it just happens...
...Status anxiety is nothing new in America. Alexis de Tocqueville first remarked that the flipside of America’s democratic spirit is class anxiety. Due to the absence of aristocratic titles or estates, families are seldom blessed with status for more than a few generations. One group is always rising, while another is fading. Harvard and schools like it are at the epicenter of these social shifts. Such universities no longer educate the nation’s elite; now they make the nation’s elite...
...bastion of the Joe and Pat administration,” Martel said. Martel said Crittenden’s presence would be missed.“Cole is a very visible figure in Currier. He’s very much a part of Currier life and part of the Currier spirit,” Frances I. Martel ’09, the treasurer of Currier’s House Committee (HoCo), said. “We’re very concerned about finding someone that can fill that role at least as well as Cole did, which will be very difficult...
...Sorry (Vintage; 218 pages). Just as Sixty Lights segued seamlessly into Dreams, this pained, poetic tale of a young girl wracked by dreams of speaking seems to have been born from its predecessor. "We take it for granted, don't we?" muses 12-year-old Perdita Keene, a free spirit made mute by the violent death of her English anthropologist father near Broome, Western Australia, in World War II. "The inspiration and expiration that presses the vocal folds, the movement of air from the trachea, the vibration of the voice box, the issuing-unthinking, automatic-of air released into...