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...awful lot of people -- people with very diverse backgrounds. The golden thread of all education is in the first questions: How should I live? What's the good life? What can I hope for? What must I do? What would be the terrible consequences if we knew the truth...
...issue is not about moral absolutes, but whether the pursuit of truth is possible at all. If we are not understood as believing in everything equally, we are depicted as believing in only one thing absolutely. There is no longer room for the theoretical middle ground, where one spends one's life discussion. We can't avoid thinking. The thoughtless are always going to be the prisoners of other people's thoughts. American intellectual life has given us an easy way to believe anything we want...
...also makes clear that Foer is different from other hyperachieving young writers. Where young Turks like Dave Eggers get tagged as ironic, and even snarky, Foer is profoundly serious. The way some other 28-year-olds are interested in beer and video games, Foer is interested in the Truth with a capital T, and he's not afraid to go for all the big themes at once. In Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Foer takes on death, love, sex, pain, war and Sept...
...inner feelings, the panels were largely redundant, visually underscoring what the play had already said. They neither truly added nor detracted from the overall sense of the play but functioned only to add another layer of unease to the already uncomfortable process of learning the truth about the characters...
Harvard has a particularly vested interest in maintaining an open marketplace of ideas. Our school motto, Veritas, reminds us that this institution’s primary goal is to pursue “truth.” To do so, we must be willing to allow ideas to enter into our discourse, regardless of how fervently we might dislike them...