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...disheartening truth is that faculty cannot be motivated to devote their energies to crucial survey materials, the government department should turn to a competent, engaging lecturer who can cultivate a coherent program over time. While there will likely be disagreement over what should be taught in such a course, tough decisions must be made in the interest of undergraduates. Sophomore tutorials offer a valuable opportunity to impart a uniform body of knowledge to all concentrators, and, in doing so, build cohesion within the class and the department; moreover, concentrators benefit tremendously from a common foundation that can serve...
...Playboy’s” tagline on its posters, and the slogan suggests a tension that exists between the commercial exploitation of Ireland and the play’s attempt to accurately represent a real historical setting. Just as its characters navigate the often-blurred distinction between truth and fiction, “Playboy” has to work against exotic versions of the “Emerald Isle” to present an authentic version of Ireland. It’s this reality that Spillane-Hinks tries to capture—to tell a real story...
American fiction is in asatirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...nukes - is, as Stephanopoulos correctly said, "crossing a line." If George had asked, "What about nukes?" the diplomatic protocol would have been to tapdance: "I can't imagine ever having to use nuclear weapons," or some such, leaving the nuclear door open, but never saying so specifically. In truth, I was trying to make the same point, undiplomatically - which comes easy for me: If the Iranians persist in crazy talk about wiping Israel, or New York, off the face of the earth, it isn't a bad idea if we hint that we can get crazy, too. One can easily...
...undergraduate community. Yet the College administration is in the process of evicting student groups from office space in Harvard Yard and granting them space in the Quad. Although this move promises to give students more space that will be better equipped and open to more student groups, the symbolic truth is that student groups are being pushed from the heart to the extremities of our campus...