Word: pursuits
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...oversaw this week's profile of Frank Gehry as well as the cover story on reality-television programming. In fact, she barely had time to leave her desk. "Putting both stories in the magazine," says Simpson, "reflects the crazy and endlessly exciting mix of important art and trivial pursuit that makes up our cultural life at the turn of this century...
What's ironic is that this most traditional pursuit has been reinvigorated by modern technologies. A scrapbook would seem antithetical to the digital age: a clunky, tangible thing in a universe of rapidly deleted e-mail and disappearing web pages. But it was only within the past decade or so that manufacturers began mass producing acid-free paper (which prevents pictures from yellowing or deteriorating) and that machines able to replicate photos began turning up in craft shops and drugstores...
...they're more fun than on paper because your score pops up the second you answer the last question. Emode.com's funny tests can tell you whether you're a natural leader, a risk taker or just high maintenance. Coolquiz.com on the other hand, is an e-Trivial Pursuit, asking hundreds of questions about movies, music and history...
...Peters' forecast of an online, Web-based, white-collar workplace [VISIONS 21, May 22] was very chilling indeed. His feverish embrace of extreme individuality, free-market pursuit and constant self-improvement completely drowns out any inclination for people to think about others who are less fortunate. There is no real community, no downtime, no nurturing of the soul in Peters' business model--just workers hunched over a monitor, constantly "improving" themselves for the next level of business. Will embracing technology automatically make you a queen bee--or will you still be a drone? WILLIAM T. LAYHER Somerville, Mass...
...many here, I'm sure, have noticed that there is a tendency to dismiss all that is not done in the pursuit of "higher learning." In other words, at Harvard, sports are deemed unimportant, uninteresting and, at best, meaningless...