Word: tears
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...musing on the workings of communist ideology, Czech writer Milan Kundera notes about what he calls the two tears of kitsch. ?The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass. The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse...
...luck happens to everybody. But as the Crimson co-ed sailing team proved, it’s how you react to it that makes a difference.The Harvard squad went on a tear during the second day of the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship, held in St. Mary’s City, Md., to make up for setbacks suffered in the regatta’s first half. The late boost earned the Crimson a third-place ranking and a final score of 228 total points, with Brown University taking home top honors with a tally of 206.“I thought...
...over. All of my midterms were finally behind me, and in place of frantic studying, I could resume my usual activities of napping, editorializing, and trying to finish the Harry Potter series. At least until three weeks from now, when we all get the privilege of beginning to tear our hair out for the second time this semester. That’s right folks—just when you thought it was safe to stop going to lecture again, here comes the wave of “second midterms,” looming on the horizon like a storm cloud...
...Andy Ross. The 59-year-old Californian has placed a $3.7 million bet--his house, his entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character closes her cozy...
...hope to set the stage for legislation that would both crack down on illegal entry, which appeals to conservatives, and make it easier for undocumented people to become guest workers, which tends to appeal to Hispanic voters. G.O.P. House members who fear that Bush's guest-worker plan could tear the party apart say Administration officials have recently assured them that the White House would support a separate border-security bill first rather than insist on a linked package. Doing so could make it harder for Bush to later get the guest-worker program, which he once thought would give...