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After penning his most famous best sellers in the 1940s (including The Power and the Glory and the Heart of the Matter), Greene began to show signs that he was aware of the burden to write according to what the public expected...
...It’s not that hard to find someone who can speak Chinese fluently, but it is rare to find anyone who can write professional Chinese properly,” Feng said...
...empty rhetoric. Money dominates politics because money buys ads, and ads work. If voters won’t listen to volunteers, candidates must rely on the most expensive—and most disgusting—medium out there. This means they must appeal to those who can write the big checks, and they’re free to ignore everybody else. Lazy voters made attack ads the only effective form of political mobilization, and only an active electorate will ever get rid of them...
...Writing a hit play is about as hard as finding a parking space in the Square (or so goes one playwright’s saying, I think). When the producers of the hit play Matt and Ben couldn’t find a venue in the area that would suit their playful fiction-based-on-fact one-act about the younger travails of Messrs. Damon and Affleck, they opted for a space as unlikely, and as good, as any: the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. This is where, Harvardwood lore has it, the illustrious Mr. Damon emoted his last emotion...
...described one debate as must-sleep TV. Even people who bothered to vote weren't sure it mattered much who won. But this campaign has turned out to be a passion play, with millions more people prepared to paper their yards with signs or make calls at night or write a check to a candidate for the first time ever or offer to drive an elderly neighbor to the polls. Given the questions on the table--war and peace, freedom and safety--it ought to be a relief to see so many Americans come out of their little gated tribal...