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...movie's ultimate revelation is disappointing and frankly pretty cheesy, circling (without landing on) a vaguely "spiritual" resolution of Ellie's quest. On an intellectual level, it's no resolution at all but rather a sop of vacuous humanism that teaches Ellie nothing except the value of patience--and perhaps a little humility...
...decisions of public officials for what they are. And given that so many decisions these days are political, the media are programmed to ask themselves, "What are the political consequences of this event?" Such questioning can help the people of New Bedford and Fall River see through the vacuous comments made by Boston politicians. Yet it runs into problems when those comments become more trenchant, as Bill Weld's did this week. The media must recognize that political considerations are not universal decision-makers...
Although millions of us were born between 1965 and '77, please remember that millions of us reject the rude, crude and morally vacuous "values" your interviewers chose to use as examples of Generation X. Like our parents and grandparents, we know that only honest, hardworking and morally upright individuals can truly influence this nation in the right direction. Your incessant make-believe reporting has convinced many that these timeless virtues aren't relevant in today's world. Wrong again. CHARLES AKERS Caracas...
...Paper lists the basic features of a Core course as "teacher, students, content and review process" (p. 28). Beyond the intellectual illegitimacy of such a vacuous definition, it is obvious to us from this that the only difference between a Core course and a departmental one is the element of the review process. Not incidentally, it is this very review process--one whose vision is blind-sided by the awful Core categories--that is responsible for the limited number of Core offerings and the unwillingness of Faculty members to propose courses. As Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis...
...naturally, are the paintings--currently on view at New York City's Museum of Modern Art--that were done in the '80s, after his mind was completely gone and he had to rely on assistants to do everything but move his arm across the canvas. These spectral, vacuous confections of ribbony paint are among the saddest things ever made by a once major artist...