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...been two Republican presidential debates, both useful. The first, on May 3 at the Reagan Library, clarified the big problems the Republicans will have in 2008: they have no idea how to deal with the incredibly unpopular presidency of George W. Bush, and their constant summoning of a mythic Reaganite past just makes them seem ... old. The second, on May 15 in South Carolina, clarified the field--not just which candidates should be taken seriously but also how the serious candidates are likely to relate to one another. I thought Mitt Romney won the first debate because he was smooth...
...books they enjoyed as children. The Harvard English Department often offers tutorials on children’s literature, and this year one senior wrote her thesis on Alcott. Why is there such a deep concern about what children read? Children’s literature seems to have some mythic power of shaping the minds of tomorrow. To some extent this power is real: my conception of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still largely based on its portrayal in “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.” And because of the medium?...
...course.” Close up on Darling: when we meet her again in the narrative proper, she’s a 29-year-old reporter for the Washington Post by day, femme fatale by night. “Every affair was a movie, an adventure bathed in mythic romance; every seduction conjured up a brand-new way to be,” she recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk...
...this be good news for the mythic, native (and rather dim) kings of the American plains? And now that we have revived bison as a species, can we figure a way not to screw it up again--to manage and slaughter them sanely and humanely...
...less process. Through exercises such as the exploration of students’ pasts and their own “falls from grace,” Rader says he wished to cultivate an understanding of the role of the screenwriter as a conduit. “There is a mythic underpinning to screenwriting, and they have access these myths,” Rader says of students. “The best thing they could do would be to get in touch with it.” The afternoon portion of the workshop consisted of an analysis of two scripts...