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...think you are capable of living without writing," said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, "do not write." He didn't live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestites, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction...
...years Arbus had been subject to depression so severe she sometimes had trouble leaving her apartment. When she finally took her life, by swallowing barbiturates and slashing her wrists, she died in her bathtub, fully clothed. When her body was discovered days later, it was partially decomposed. But who understood better than she that the fully human condition has its grotesque dimension? And who had worked harder to prepare a field of understandings in which even misery could be understood as a subdepartment of dignity? "I really believe," she once wrote, "there are things which nobody would see unless...
...through issues,” recalls O’Mary, who is now working for Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and plans to attend Boston College Law School next year. “He would lay out arguments and the opposite side just so he understood the opposite side. He always felt if he did not understand the opposite view, he did not want to make a decision about that argument...
...standardized test at some point, and yet there is widespread confusion over what tests do and do not measure. Insta-experts from the media and from antitesting groups often repeat fallacies: blacks do better in college than their SAT scores predict (actually, for reasons that aren't well understood, blacks tend to do worse in college than matched groups of whites with the same scores); how well you do on the SAT will determine how well you do in life (SAT scores have little power to predict earnings...
Paku said he understood why Harvard would opt for the seemingly unconventional investment...