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...impractical figment of reality, for “feelings are the lingering misgivings of evolution, a pathology of intelligence, in the best case a self-preservation manual.” The novel frames love in terms of the primitive evolutionary drive to perpetuate genes, an attitude whose approach resonates throughout much of the story. While Volpi’s motif of genes as deterministic prime-movers offers an insightful line or two, his prose otherwise lacks vigor and ingenuity. Volpi draws heavily from a repository of borrowed metaphors and personifications–riding on Conrad’s coattails...
...driven by the pulsing bass. Though the song gradually builds, it never explodes. Restraint seems in many ways totally at odds with this band—given their endless supply of cover songs, not to mention records—but here it works, preserving an internal rhythm that cycles throughout the song.Like all parents, Yo La Tengo occasionally fail to engage their listening audience. The uninspiring “By Two’s” is the album’s requisite snoozer, James McNew’s sole vocal performance...
...kids that no matter where we are, whether times are good or bad, we have to be thinking about what we do for those of us around us. And what you'll see us doing more of out of the First Lady's Office, and what we're doing throughout the White House is really trying to put those visions in action. That's why you see us doing service so much. That's why you see me taking the first week off so that I'm going to my kids' school. That's why you see the President going...
...Obama: You always have to remind people, even throughout the campaign, that solutions and forward movement on any issue is a multi - requires a multi-pronged approach. You need government, you need individuals, you need strong communities. And sometimes you lose sight that all of those have to be working. You rely too heavily on government to the exclusion of individual responsibility and engagement; individualism takes over community. But they all have to be working in sync...
...these very small steps of planting a garden gets us into the broader discussion that government isn't always the answer. That's something that the President said throughout his campaign. But a garden is a part of it. And how we change the way kids think about food is a part of that. Making sure people know that exercise has to be part of their daily lives - that's a part of it. And that's not something government can mandate, but it's within the power of each and every individual. Service is a part of that bigger...