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But as Harvard found out the hard way last month, the Big Red’s got a pretty decent team as well. Cornell sent a shock throughout the nation when it took Kansas, ranked first in the nation both then and now, down to the wire. The team has...
A film focusing on a single day in the lives of 21 people is bound to have poor character development. All of the characters are one-dimensional, except for the surprisingly excellent Ashton Kutcher. As the film’s central character, Kutcher undergoes the most...
Cook touched upon this idea of adjustment with his last anecdote, a sad story about his second kiss. He explained how a girl he liked as a kid turned him down because, as she said, they “couldn’t communicate.”
Aciman is attempting to pin down the feeling of imminent loss; the moment of insane delirium one feels while balancing on the edge of a precipice. For Proust, that loss surrounds mortality and the desire to mentally ward it off at all costs; for the narrator, it is simply a...
Aciman’s shower of allusions is too perfunctory to do justice to the ideas and places he is evoking. The nod to a different cultural context is shallow, but additionally becomes disturbing when Aciman uses metaphors reminiscent of the pain and trauma caused by World War II to...