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...might just be the distorted looking glass of the last 20 years, but there’s something about the 1980s and its music that brings to mind the Atlantic City casinos built in that decade. The casinos aspire to grandeur—domed, cream ceilings, great pseudo-classical columns, golden moldings—and yet are undone by the very beginning of paint peel, the first sag of the ceiling, the discolored hint of water damage from shirking on the plumbing. They might have looked good when they were first built, but they were never built to last...
...asking these questions not because we should bend to the tyranny of the majority, to the citizens of this nation who look on art dubiously, but rather because the potential of backlash highlights the grim predicament that the arts currently face. Right now, we are stranded in the midst of the recession. Brandeis is liquidating its art holdings and closing its Rose Art Museum. The publishing industry is disappearing faster than Bernard Madoff’s money. And, as we descend further into economic chaos, the situation of the arts can only be supposed to get worse. We must make...
...longer than necessary—strongly suggesting an alternative use for the pathway.The brainbow’s bursts of color belie what its creators say is a revolutionary potential to solve the mysteries of the mind.“I think it holds the promise of changing how we look at genetics and the brain and consciousness,” Sanes says. “It’s like the human genome project.”Though the researchers have hopes for brainbow, the technique must clear some hurdles before it can illuminate the course of mental diseases...
...photographs include the Public Garden in the winter, the Charles River, the grand marble staircase of the Boston Public Library, and Harvard’s very own Sever Hall. Taken in sharp focus, the photographs are intensely colorful. However, this over-saturation of color cheapens the images, making them look like blown-up postcards. The angles and views of the locations are more ‘familiar’ than the sites themselves because they are essentially formulaic. As a result, it is impossible to develop a deeper personal reflection on the seemingly mass-manufactured photographs...
...sense of just how sharp a break with the past this is, all one has to do is take a look at what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, himself a Roman Catholic, wrote in 2002 in an essay in First Things. "[Abortion involves] ... private individuals whom the state has decided not to restrain. One may argue (as many do) that the society has a moral obligation to restrain. That moral obligation may weigh heavily upon the voter, and upon the legislator who enacts the laws; but a judge, I think, bears no moral guilt for the laws society has failed...