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...Students want to be empowered by knowledge, not refined or made precious by it. The age of the snob has passed. There will always be a core constituency of sweet-tempered undergraduates who find literature intrinsically fascinating, just as there will always be devotees of Wagner, bonsai, and Lithuanian folk dances. We will dote on this shrinking brood, praise them for savoring Auden while their peers gorge on "Glee." But let’s not shake our fists at the thumb-typers. It would be a mistake to circle the nerd wagons...
...Bookish Folk...
...Songs from the Tundra” features lush high-definition images of tundra lifestyle overlaid with the folk songs of a 90-year-old blind native. Berman’s carefully crafted documentary won him recognition in the United States and abroad, netting him the Grand Jury Prize at the Provincetown Film Festival and a selection from the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam—the biggest documentary film festival in the world—where he was the youngest of the 15 student filmmakers selected...
Patrick Park, Wale, and Kid Cudi certainly each have their own styles and merits. Park’s gentle folk clearly sets itself apart from his hip-hop counterparts, although the latter two artists also differ vastly in style. Wale relies on flow and samples while Cudi lays down his own original, if less-innovative, beats. However, on Sunday all three artists proved incapable of consistently commanding attention, leaving this year’s Yardfest to be a rather stale and second-rate affair...
With anticipation highest for hip-hop artist Kid Cudi, best known for his single “Day ‘n’ Nite,” the concert also featured indie-folk artist Patrick Park and rapper Wale, attracting about 4,500 attendees, according to College Events Board chair Moira E. Forberg ’11 and vice-chair Stephen G. Anastos...