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Hunger for the World
Monday June 16, 2008
Patricia Hampl notes that successful memoir evidences a “hunger for the world,” yearning which “expands beyond its subject...into the endless and tragic recollection that is history.”
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How Can We Make Jean-Luc Godard Happy Again?
Friday June 13, 2008
The concluding thoughts in Bradford’s recent post about the early temple-like status of the movie theater, and the religious nature of cinephilia (“Finding Real Religion,”), struck me, when I first read them, as both true and wrong....
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Will Beauty Save the World?
Thursday June 12, 2008
“Beauty will save the world.” This was the title of Laura’s post a while ago in which she mused insightfully about her search for beauty in the midst of bureaucracy. She didn’t need to cite the source of the title phrase, because we all know it’s from Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, right? Well, sort of....
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Change
Wednesday June 11, 2008
My friend...Kim Alexander and I have often pondered this topic as we have observed over the years in our conference participants a tension between those who privilege the traditions and heroes of the past, and those who privilege the new and the modern, advancing a cause somewhat akin to progress.
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Apocalypse, Kind-Of
Tuesday June 10, 2008
...brothers and sisters, maybe it is time to consider the simple, low-carbon-footprint life as being a function of no other option. Last Wednesday night, as a huge storm system swept across the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, scattering tornadoes....
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