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...subway platform." Karl Swetland wears a yellow hat over frizzy brown hair that creeps out like Weird Al Yankovic's and a pink tie-dyed shirt reading "Red Raspberries" that compliments his acid-washed jeans perfectly. Commuters look on in wonder as the beanie babies in his guitar case stare back in equal amusement. Swetland fights for attention with the little girls across the tracks claiming they saw a rat. An old friend shows up and taps the musician on the shoulder and the music comes to an abrupt halt. Just saying hi, Swetland explains. "I'll forgo another four...
...amounts of hair over the past decade from none to a little to a fair amount. At the time, a wig seemed like the right solution, but I grew to wonder whether it was really the best choice. As a young girl it was easier not to have people stare at me on the street or whisper about my hairless presence. No ten-year-old wants that. But, as I grew more comfortable with my situation, I resented that I had to hide something from the world. I avoided overnight trips and retreats in fear that people would find...
...corporation--touches a problem modern conservatives face frequently in the real world: Given that one should, generally speaking, preserve traditions, how long must something be around to qualify as a tradition? Jurists who stand by the original understanding of the constitution face the same difficulty when deciding precisely when stare decisis starts to apply. Most have recourse to judicial prudence: When a decision has become so embedded in everyday life that overturning it would cause chaos, the decision should stand, no matter how poor the ruling...
...this sea of ridiculously expensive and severely offensive T-shirts, I spotted a Harvard couple from my house six rows back, clad conservatively in jeans and Gap T-shirts. I sighed with relief, and ran over. "Hi! I'm with the Harvard Crimson, Arts actually,"(confused stares) "you know, all the choreography. And, well, I'm basically wondering what on earth you're doing here?" Her stare becomes even more confused, he turns back towards the fight. Obviously I've missed some large point about the relevance of senseless simulated slaughter in our society. So I make them smile...
...about the threat of the "ironic individual," possessed of acute self-awareness and mistrust, which, Purdy argued, led to cynicism. Heartbreaking Work is a resounding rebuttal. In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole. This is not irony obscuring sincerity. It is, finally, irony in the service of sincerity...