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Discussion on the internet seems to emphasize that Dinosaur Jr. is much more comfortable playing together post-Hand it Over. There seems to be a grain of truth in this observation; Mascis and Johnson smile almost apologetically at the audience while delivering the depressive selfcenteredness featured in "Alone" and other new material. It is a little laughable to imagine Mascis telling a girl "I still believe in sometime" or "I still need your sunshine," and the band fully recognizes this overdramatism. On jamtv.com, Berz remarks, "When I first got the tape of 'Alone,' I remember hanging out with my girlfriend...
This just in! The media distorts the truth for its own nefarious purposes! This movie focuses on Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a reporter who "cross the line" between reporting the news and fabricating it when he turns a hostage crisis involving a fired janitor (John Travolta) into a media circus. Unfortunately, this preachy film also croosses a line--the one that separates commentary from polemic. Despite fine performances, it suffers from a fatal heavy-handedness...
...themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more fascinating to create; that there is no limit to where theory can lead in the real world (I knew at least of Marx); but that there is not a singular universal truth. Values, the grounding for theory, are specific to cultures, yet what underlies all of these pluralistic cultures is a common humanity which allows us to study foreign civilizations past and present and to communicate with them as well as with each other...
...looking for answers? Hadn't I applied to Harvard for an education? Isn't an education supposed to include definite knowledge? How could the president of this great University recommend to an incoming student that he or she read essays that celebrate the frailty of theory, the partiality of truth, the heralding of experience...
Indeed, this is what Harvard has taught me. All those books in Widener and Lamont are worthy not so much for the revelations in each but for the collective truths housed therein. And, in each of our educations, the various kernels of wisdom picked up from this course and that are not themselves the keys to wisdom, but as a whole, the plurality of them, the bounty of diverse thought, is the substance of truth, which is what this University stands for and what it teaches. But it teaches this truth, veritas, only by teaching it in parts...