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...that a wider world view may have helped Saul Bellow win a Nobel Prize in 1976. Like Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December, The Human Stain makes a good case for the decline of humanism, civility and common sense. Roth also gives us a bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include an affair with Faunia Farley, a 34-year-old janitor who is crazed because her two children were killed in a house fire while she was having sex in the driveway...
...Disney whore. To all of you who think the company brainwashes children, conceals a Satanic cult, represents all that is evil in our society, I can't sympathize. Disney's like Cher - it's always around, it always comes back when it's future is looking bleak. So as a concerned fan, I started wondering a while back why the last few Disney cartoons (not the Pixar movies) haven't neither been tearing up the box office nor instantly acquiring legendary status like the films of old. So here's my hypothesis. Just think of the Disney films that everyone...
...odds looked bleak, as Harvard was stuck in a five game losing streak while the Big Green had won 12 in a row coming into the weekend...
...nobody does. The fact that on most days you can barely walk two feet in the yard without running into some kind of protest is proof enough that the Harvard student body as a whole is hardly apathetic. If they can't drum up support here, prospects are looking bleak for the talk-show circuit...
...students. These can be excellent, unless you haven't cracked the binding on your overpriced books from the Coop. Shocking as it might seem, students are occasionally unprepared for class, choosing one more slice at Tommy's House of Pizza rather than reading those last hundred pages of Bleak House...