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(09/28/12 4:35pm)
For various socio-aesthetic reasons I have resided in hermitage on Jefferson Park Avenue since the end of my first year. Here I have hibernated through winters and reclined through summers – which you can’t do living on Grounds – in aloneness, enjoying that view you can only get in an off-Grounds apartment: of the real world. I am part of the “58 percent” of students living off Grounds who know on-Grounds housing just sucks.
(06/18/12 6:23am)
All money comes with strings attached; the strings of money itself. You can feel the value of a dollar; not truth, or justice, whose values are known and seldom felt, perhaps not even by Jefferson. Omnipresent money, we live in it; not truth, which is absent and hides when we’re coming.
(04/19/12 9:36am)
"The Pulitzer is for the birds - for the pullets. It's just a dummy newspaper publicity award given by crooks and illiterates." So wrote Saul Bellow, in his novel "Humboldt's Gift," which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. That was in 1976 - then, in 1977, no winner was awarded in fiction; then 25 years of winners until Monday, when the 20-person board which chooses among three finalists decided to give no prize whatsoever, none, not to a single novel out of the eligible 341. If it's any consolation, there were no losers, either.
(11/09/11 6:56am)
CHARLOTTESVILLE - Citizens and journalists gathered in the University's Nau Hall last Saturday to discuss the future of citizenship and journalism in this country. The event, a screening of the movie "Page One: Inside The New York Times," preceded a panel that featured Media Studies Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan, McGregor McCance of The Daily Progress and Brian Stelter, a media writer for the Times and co-star of "Page One." "I've seen it about 10 times," Stelter tweeted, "but I no longer watch, I just walk in at the end." Stelter, a tweeter and former blogger, took his seat as scheduled.
(10/19/11 8:04am)
ONE REMEMBERS that joke
(08/20/11 4:00am)
They came to the University with many passions that did not quite add up to a degree. If they knew what interested them they could select a major. If they knew what was definitely of no interest they could remove that option from the list. But this being undeclared all the time left them positively uncertain.
(04/29/11 4:00am)
IF ANYONE might remember the Charlie Sheen surge of late February and early March 2011, it could in fact be literary scholars. Sheen's rope-a-dope with addiction, including a skepticism toward Alcoholics Anonymous and belief in willpower to overthrow drugs; his range of moods; his creativity of language amidst psycho-chatter - it is not just that Sheen reflected some of the problems snuffed out in the 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," but that by indulging in self-promotion on all fronts of media, when compared to the self-conscious author David Foster Wallace, Sheen is the anti-DFW.
(01/26/11 7:49am)
Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, the daughter of Amy Chua, - author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" - has been a musician for some time. In accordance with the house rule - that daughters were not allowed to "not play the piano or violin" - Sophia chose piano. Practice? Every after-school afternoon and in summer camps. Repetition, competition. By age 14, Chua-Rubenfeld had performed at Carnegie Hall. Surely, Sophia could play Chopin like characters in movies, channel Beethoven a la car commercial, stiletto-pump Vivaldi in a local Nordstrom. Well, great. How about jazz?
(01/19/11 5:44am)
As an Opinion columnist, when opinions are commonplace and political views especially noxious, I have tried to cut under, reach over, look past - to preposition my way when facing the political. With no success. Legs of broken pistons, the tired hurdler sees one option: to go through.
(12/01/10 7:32am)
Kanye West has had Thanksgiving on lock. For some seasons, his albums have dropped right before the holiday break; the cold beats, nostalgia lyrics and hospitality toward guests evoke the homecoming spirit of the season. With torrents of heartache, cut by flurries of grand ambition, the songs dress major tragedies and triumphs in minor. Mr. West captures the feelings of the holidays: a modest gratitude stuffed with material overabundance, where even the simple praises become larger-than-life. Any person can be humble. Only Kanye is the most humble.
(11/17/10 7:12am)
The kind of movies they show on airplanes are sentimental bits: microwavable pop-corn, ready made with explosions at the push of a button. Exotic scenery - say beaches, cities - makes up for empty characters. Hence, on many onboard flicks, you watch the iconic transition of an airplane in flight. And looking around, just for an instant, there is a common acknowledgement among the cabin: Hey, that is us.
(11/10/10 6:36am)
It is never reassuring when your role model kills himself. A few weeks back, I examined some literary remains of the late David Foster Wallace, now held at the University of Texas - an irony Wallace might have appreciated, given that he once referred to "Two crew-cut and badly burned U. Texas guys." On this Austin afternoon, the glare from a glass display case was magnified by the brilliance of his writing. In both novels and nonfiction, Wallace investigates the mystery of modern happiness - but it appears the author could never find the answer to this question. Worse yet, maybe he did.
(11/03/10 5:02am)
LeBron James elevates over groping Pistons' arms - tossing the ball over three defenders, the rim guzzles Spalding like an eager coin funnel. It did not matter from where he shot. Tonight, he was a Nietzschean superman, willing the ball into the basket. Game 5 of the NBA playoffs against the Detroit Pistons, one of those events that make it worthwhile to be a sports fan. I picked up a vibrating phone. "Dude," my cousin said. "You watchin' this?" The start of a speechless conversation.
(10/27/10 5:08am)
The sick man of the University was dying. The times called for a heightened interest in hard sciences, mathematics and engineering for the sake of global dominance. And although the Iron Curtain had already fallen, its great hero again took the stage, taking an encore to champion the humanities. The bold Winston Churchill faced an audience at MIT in 1949, declaring, "No technical knowledge can outweigh knowledge of the humanities in the gaining of which philosophy and history walk hand in hand." The academic Cold War had begun. There was no longer the threat of burning books; it would be enough simply to forget them.
(10/20/10 4:46am)
A small soft drink costs $4.75 at the downtown Regal Cinema; concessions are so overpriced you would think you were at a good theater. But thin wallets fit into tight jeans better and the audience's economic regret has fizzled into sympathy for a certain young billionaire.
(10/06/10 5:42am)
These grey days the world is shot in noir, when a hooded jacket means warm security or cold danger, depending on the hour. Rain punches the pavement, beating us down. The leaves are dying and violence is in the air.
(09/29/10 5:02am)
Five minutes following, you've already forgotten the name of the opener. Although the main band has prepared these songs for months and are currently preparing on stage, they look like they do not want to be there. The once-friendly audience condenses, as profound boredom mistaken for fatigue sets in among the restless crowd. Who is everyone texting? - the great mystery of our age. Radiohead takes the stage, echoing the historic tone of belligerent British skepticism. The group sings about individual awareness and free thinking to an audience all wearing the same $40 tour T-shirt. Our concerts are out of harmony; hear the discord of our times.
(09/22/10 5:14am)
Not "Paper or plastic?" but "digital or print?" we ask - speaking of books as groceries, goods we might pick up while waiting in the checkout isle. The question, not its silly answer, reveals our misplaced fear that technology will delete literature. But by lamp or candlelight, we will resist the burnout of reading. So hand me that stash of books and pass me a light.
(09/15/10 5:45am)
Among the heavy forces weighing to determine the fates of our age, the internet carries considerable gravity. The internet is democratic, egalitarian, promoting of knowledge and has a tendency to worship science over religion. In those ways, the internet exemplifies the rational principles of the Enlightenment. Yet in some violent arenas, the web can resemble the French Revolution.
(09/08/10 5:33am)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident (Euclid), that all men are created equal (Mazzei), that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" (Locke/Hutcheson).