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...other "Star Wars" films, primarily for kids. What has left unsaid is that children do not have to be limited by age: the movie is for the childlike joy and wonder left in all of us, if only we look for it within ourselves. It is so easy to abandon these things as the detritus of a journey to "maturity"; however, being older and "wiser" does not mean that we're any closer to the truth. When we are children, we often see the world in black and white, good and bad, right and wrong. Though human existence is filled...
Loyalty. Honor. Courage. Fortitude. Ideals that, sadly, aren't revered or seen much in our world anymore. The comic book warriors of the "Star Wars" films indulge in these virtues with abandon upon stages breathtaking in their special effects. The Jedi, strong in the "Force," battle the Dark Side, i.e., the evil very present in the world, in all worlds, and across galaxies and time. The success of the execution of this is unparalleled--attracting theatergoers of all ages and points of view, from Harvard undergraduates to their sometimes Luddite parents...
...History departments, particularly Americanists; the mass exodus of junior faculty from the English department; the seeming failure, if not iniquity, of the tenure system in the cases of government professors Bonnie Honig and Peter Berkowitz, and a huge missed opportunity in a periodic review of the Core to fully abandon the tired program in favor of distribution requirements. There has been no real progress on ethnic studies, and little to nothing has changed in such vital areas as section size, teaching fellow quality and academic advising. Verdict: Even to worse...
Like modernism in art, the definitional question may depend on who you ask. If saturation of a market leads artists to abandon the genre, comercial hip hop may be at odds with itself. When punk rock broke big with fluffy nuggets that received popular recognition, some mourned the loss of the political punk. Others proclaimed a new genre to exploit, an upbeat gleeful energy. But whether or not the movement had died rested on the definition of the movement. The NextLevel conference highlighted this question able future of hip hop culture.William...
...seems odd that Osborn would first condemn extreme conservatives as "backward" and liberals as "self-righteous" and then ask that we all abandon the intelligent discourse that comes with a broad political spectrum to follow blindly the dogma of these extremes...