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...between. For a girl who watched a lot of television, Harvard was a ticket into a faraway land where everyone wore navy blazers with gold buttons and Brendan Fraser look-alikes frolicked around the Yard with drafts of government theses in tow. Not that I knew what theses were??I had only heard about them in With Honors, a film starring Fraser as a hunky Harvard student and Joe Pesci as a homeless man living in the basement of Widener Library...
Where there were homers, there was humility. Where there were doubles, there was also double-duty. Where there were sacrifices, there were??other sacrifices...
...Mice and Men is all about rabbits. Rabbits are more than just characters in the novel: they in some sense are the novel, and yet they exceed (run outside) it and are possessed by it all at once. To Steinbeck himself, in both life and literature, they were??and continue to be—more than just rodents, adorable yet problematic: they were tufted meta-metaphors of the act of writing itself. To understand more precisely the way(s) in which Steinbeck’s use of the rabbit-as-metaphor eclipses the rabbit qua rabbit, or even...
...their classes with the same criteria of flash and pizzazz they might use to pick out a new pair of jeans. These professors envision a more sober, a more reflective course selection, where the professor’s annoying habit of inserting the phrase “as it were?? into every other sentence isn’t nearly as important as your deep and abiding interest in biblical history. They believe that when it comes to selecting courses, acting on your impulses is a bad thing—that you shouldn’t drop a course...
...wanted to show my support for the strike at Yale as a student and a labor activist, and I wanted to see exactly what was going on down there,” he said. “I wanted to see how big things were??and things were big. It seems like the whole school’s on strike...