Word: worldness
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Where this book succeeds most is on the level of satire. Unlike in his previous books, Palahniuk does not show his readers a secret or paranormal world, but instead takes one especially familiar to most modern audiences and exaggerates its flaws to significant comic effect. For example in one scene, Katherine Kenton decides to adopt a child, and after an extended perusal of infants, she decides that none of them go with her newly painted walls. There is a similar kind of witty iciness throughout, which gives off the air of certain modern celebrities under the guise of a distant...
...ODDSAC,” the new visual album by psychedelic pop band Animal Collective, is enough to make you feel as if your head has been transported from your body, as if you’re standing on the other side of the world, staring back at yourself in the distance. “ODDSAC” is 53 minutes of brilliant, yet quirky mayhem...
Fuller was heavily encouraged to continue with ballet because of the severe shortage of male dancers in the ballet world. He soon became so serious that he considered skipping college and going straight from his senior year of high school into a professional dance company. “My plan had been to go straight into company” Fuller says. “So college was a big shift...
...specific content is a good way to ensure that academics do not serve as the basis of community. The modern university seems uncomfortable with the language of common pursuits. Instead, as the Gen Ed report will remind us, education is about my ability to respond to the changing world as I, not the community, sees...
...Harvard life is all about. Instead, Harvard purposefully structures its attitudes and educational rhetoric to comment only on each person’s life as it matters to the student, but certainly not to the wider community. A collection of nominally associated individuals can affect powerful change in the world at large, but not the shifts in attitude that would establish collective striving within. Without this last change, community at Harvard will remain up to individuals’ efforts to forge it, For prefrosh and undergraduates alike, membership in the wider Harvard community will remain...