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...have enough fuel to land the plane?’” The plane had crashed as a result of this miscommunication, and, for Gladwell, the reason was clear. “There was a social breakdown...It was a symptom of a culture??s inability to allow subordinates to question their superiors,” he said. “This plane crash cannot be understood just on the basis of the individual, it has to be understood as part of a much larger cultural context.” In “Outliers...
...upon history and culture,” she writes in an e-mail to The Crimson. “Literature is not just a second-order phenomenon. It does cultural work in the world.” Garber’s newest work, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture??—which is also the name of a course she is currently teaching—is certainly in line with the rest of her oeuvre. Garber says that her objective in focusing her attention on 10 specific plays through critical essays that expound on certain universal...
...hours’ traffic,’ that has made this tragedy about untimely love so poignant, so ‘modern,’ and so timely.” It is this factor—now associated with our concept of “youth culture??—that Garber emphasizes, pointing to film, modern theater (specifically, “West Side Story”), music, cartoons, and even commercials. At the end of her argument, we cannot deny that as much as we have been influenced by this play, we have influenced...
Although the mainstays will continue to be taught, the department may allow concentrators to take “a suitably broad introduction to culture?? as a substitute, according to classics concentrator Veronica R. Koven-Matasy ’10, the department’s junior class representative, who also attended yesterday’s meeting...
...other forms of media. Kaufman says that as an Internet-based digital culture formed over the past couple decades, the schism between high art and low art has been breached. “Where we used to have formal, widely agreed upon boundaries between what we considered high culture??Shakespeare, fine art—and low culture??Broadway musicals or graffiti art—we’ve seen a gradual blurring and redefinition of these boundaries,” Kaufman says. “Doing mashups can be as high-status as playing Beethoven?...