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...vast ocean of common experience and belief: a commitment to democracy and free markets, intensifying economic links, a shared culture that ranges from the Magna Carta to Montesquieu to Madonna to Mastercard to mtv. In one sense that has to be right. In a world still complex and dangerous, Europeans know they will not often find more natural partners than the Americans. Even as politicians disagree over how to handle Iraq and carbon emissions, French scientists find their labs are being funded along more entrepreneurial American lines, the British newspaper the Guardian has a huge U.S. readership for its website...
...gently so. Sunday school is fine. So are the instructions for confirmation that all religions offer. But the explicit politicization of religious belief that this film shows taking place is wrong. So is the fact that it appears to make religion the sole metaphor through which they apprehend a complex world. And that leaves out of the discussion all the time they need to read what they care to read, see what they need to see at the movies and on television - to experience the materials that have at least the possibility of nurturing their imaginations and whatever odd ambitions...
...Fan” Underwood of “Southern Writers Reconsidered” fame begged me to consider this a masterpiece of Southern literature. I think I fell asleep that day in Expos. The trajectory of the novel is simple: Jack Burden—a jaded newspaperman with a complex personal background—recounts the rise of rural populist Louisiana Governor Willie Stark and his decline into corruption. Ambitious Government concentrators and wannabe Faulkners melt for this stuff. Steven Zaillian’s new film adaptation of “All the King’s Men?...
...After great pain a formal feeling comes”—from which the album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might be the most musically complex piece to ever carry Oldham’s name. Violins ascend while cellos spiral downwards, the melody darts from wall to wall in a careful pattern, and Dawn McCarthy’s counterpoint vocals plead out variations of the song’s title over and over and over again...
...current terrain is complex and unfair,” Gardner wrote. “It was gutsy for a few universities to take the lead, risk losing some good students, to try to push the overall system in positive (less complex, fairer) directions...