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...perhaps USA Today said it best: “Yes, it does seem like common sense?...
...best art has always been created in poorer times, the real gift that all artists today have been given is the opportunity, freer than before from market-driven industry pressures, to answer an eternal question: where do we go from here? For many of the workaday sorts, the answer seems to be “backwards,” or at the very least, “stay put.” In her New York Times blog “On The Runway,” Cathy Horyn recently lamented “how serious and mature designers...
...naturally say great things about you, but I think all this has been noticed across the world,” Kagan says.NO LONGER AN AFTERTHOUGHTDespite the structural problems that Law School faculty and administrators freely acknowledge, most negative impressions of the Law School from both former and current students seem to com from a vague sense of neglect and disregard from professors and administrators, rather than specific grievances.Law School Professor Carol S. Steiker ’82, who served as president of the Law Review when Kagan was supervising editor, says the competitive atmosphere was a source of discontent among...
...lost in translation is at the heart of why I wrote the book “All You Have to do Is Listen: Music from the Inside Out.” My entire life’s work has been an attempt to be a translator between something that seems to be lost in translation but is actually much closer than you would believe. The whole idea of that book was to explain to the general public how music works. My inspiration for the book grew out of a show called “What Makes It Great...
...humdrum realities, engaging a universal longing for something beyond the banal.But Holder’s material doesn’t spark much more interest than that. Title characters like “The Woman Who Sat on the Toilet for Two Years” fail to enthuse. What seems to be Holder’s heroic effort to show readers what lies beneath the grim faces he writes about is ultimately unsatisfying. To say that he even succeeds in rendering his insipid characters relatable is dubious. Is a woman “Training Her Pet” an interesting topic...