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...schedules direct us from class to meeting to practice to rehearsal, and at every break in between we are connected to our cell phones, our iPods, our laptops.Such busy-ness gives us the false impression that we are trailblazers when, for the most part, we are meekly taking well-trodden routes. Most of us simply go with the flow—abdicating control of our lives to the conventional prestige we pursue and to the technology that effectively keeps us too distracted to ask the uncomfortable questions about where we are really going and why. Between our work-hard/party-hard...
...worry, though, that scaling back student requirements may lead in fact to greater homogeneity within students, because students will not be challenged by the University and instead succumb to the well-trodden easy routes to the diploma. Nearly all the writers in the compilation envision the ideal product of the Harvard education as self-directed “citizen-leaders,” as Wasson argues...
Looking back, past attempts to ameliorate this problem have relied invariably upon relatively powerless members of our college community. Individuals seeking abolition of the clubs have failed. The same goes for those members who, interested in change, have met stiff resistance from conservative grad boards. Following these same well-trodden paths will likely lead to failure yet again...
...taken in not writing prose, it seems to be you’re ignoring the great energy that went into creating something [in verse],” Vendler says. Vendler asserts her significance in the field with intensely close readings that often bring new light and meaning to well-trodden poems. Susan Miller, who has worked with Vendler as a Teachnig Fellow for the past two years, knows full well that when Vendler writes, the world of literary scholarship pays attention. In her work on Shakespeare and George Herbert, for example, Vendler revolutionized the way scholars and laymen alike perceive...
...good friend Sammo Hung, then a stuntman at the Shaw Brothers Studio and now the action choreographer for Stephen Chow's anticipated Kung Fu Hustle, who suggested in 1974 that the little man try his hand as a stuntman. (The path from stuntman to industry bigwig is well-trodden in Hong Kong. Along with Hung, both Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are among the actors who started by taking a few falls.) Tsang, whose father, Tsang Kai-wing, had been a professional footballer in Hong Kong, had himself played for Hong Kong's team at the Asian Youth Games...