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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? exists in this vein of informed literary analysis for (quasi) popular consumption. Bloom wrote much of an original draft, but later discarded it and started anew. A life-threatening health crisis—when he was, as he said, “sliced up as so many people”—made him re-examine the work and the importance of literature to himself. After “being at the gates of death,” Bloom said, “I took one look at the book and simply wrote...
...campaign season winds down to its final day, there are only two questions on everyone’s mind. They are simple questions, very much in the vein of what it means to be American: Who is going to win and how are they going to do it? Well, as I get my Miss Cleo on, I predict the winner of the 2004 election is going to be, despite his ineptitude as a campaigner and his seeming inability to connect emotionally to other human beings, John Kerry. Indeed, Kerry will unseat our current president thanks largely to the efforts...
...Alexandra Pelosi’s Journeys With George persisted in this vein of candid impartiality, depicting then-presidential candidate George W. Bush as alternately savvy and befuddled and his horde of media followers as alternately hardy and sycophantic...
...thought it was a bad thing. I think we should think creatively,” Whitmire said. “But at the end of the day, if we think through lots of people and we think that what everyone would still enjoy is a comedian in the vein of Ali G and Will Ferrell, I’m fine with that...
With this absurdism, Russell has tapped into the same vein of postwar art that inspired the tragicomic brilliance of the original masters of existentialism. Huckabees is an unreality, a musical with songs by Sartre and book by Beckett...