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Sounds of silence are going to be recorded in England thanks to a British media artist who is collecting the gaps between words spoken on a BBC’s radio station during...
There's something especially satisfying about the Nobels awarded this year, the 100th anniversary of the prize. The science is comprehensible; the literature is crisp and relevant; and the Peace Prize was given to the organization--and its plain-spoken director--that may have the best chance of bringing some to our fractious world...
...nary a word is spoken against these regulations. No one cries for justice when deaf aspirants are turned away from flight school or foreign students learn that ROTC isn’t the club for them. We seem to recognize that in an organization where survival itself depends on individual competence and absolute trust between members, there can be grounds for having rules that differ from what we normally deem acceptable. In this light, the mere fact that a restriction exists, or that it is group-based, doesn’t make it discriminatory. What really matters is whether there...
Which is why the Spoken Word Society’s Talking Roots event on Friday night was such an enormous pleasure. Despite low-key advertising—basically word of mouth and a cool dreadlocked email that went out over a few lists—Kirkland JCR was more or less packed with people just chilling; greeting each other with hugs and jokes; reassuring each other that the long week was over and that the weekend would be good. No alcohol to be seen, just a table of sweet goodies, cookies and cake and such. Some disclosure: I was tabling...
...Straighten It Out” set the scene with a sly, sideways look at hair and asserting one’s identity, and from there it ran the whole gamut from rambling personal stories, an a cappella song, some high-school self-revelation and some quite phenomenally good spoken word style poetry. High-paced, sometimes a little too much, the poetry could make reference to Neo of The Matrix and Jesus in the same breath. One freshman stepped up to the mic and echoed what a lot of people seemed to be feeling, “I just started school...