The Common: A Modern Sense of Place: Issue 04

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    • The aroma of rosewater wafted around us in the quiet early morning streets.

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    After the War, in the West. She never wanted the rice pot to be empty. This woman is nothing like me! The cold gave her goosebumps, which she tried to avoid looking at. In the Wake of a Disaster. Marcel lit a cigarette.

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    November Poetry Feature: I hate the feeling of watching. Lost, Found, and Betrayed: It was my turn.

    He had decided to come home early from work, I suspected. He wanted me to take the cell phone. I am pleased they want a picture together, considering their history, which is fraught and filled with ugliness.

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    Every place has anchors that halt time as it passes by. In Europe . The Common Issue 16 cover with a melting yellow popsicle on a bright blue. April 15, Issue 13, Issue 13 Poetry, Poetry. By CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON. Hall of Famer Frank Thomas, from to , hit home runs over.

    This is their Senior Trip. For some, it lasted hours; for others, weeks. Others never heard back from their loved ones.

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    3 reasons college still matters

    Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory. When I had finished, an elderly alumnus stood up and said more or less the following: What he meant was that college had opened his senses as well as his mind to experiences that would otherwise be foreclosed to him. Not only had it enriched his capacity to read demanding works of literature and to grasp fundamental political ideas, it had also heightened and deepened his alertness to color and form, melody and harmony.

    And now, in the late years of his life, he was grateful. Such an education is a hedge against utilitarian values.

    • Il rosso e il nero. Ed. Integrale italiana (RLI CLASSICI) (Italian Edition).
    • The Christmas Wish;
    • Erotic Encounters Rock Star Rendezvous (Contemporary Romantic Erotica).
    • Wolf Brothers (gay werewolf erotica, M/m)!

    If all that seems too pious, I think of a comparably personal comment I once heard my colleague Judith Shapiro, former provost of Bryn Mawr and then president of Barnard, make to a group of young people about what they should expect from college: This view of what it means to be educated is often caricatured as snobbish and narrow, beholden to the old and wary of the new; but in fact it is neither, as Arnold makes clear by the seldom quoted phrase with which he completes his point: Students are pressured and programmed, trained to live from task to task, relentlessly rehearsed and tested until winners are culled from the rest.

    Too many colleges do too little to save them from the debilitating frenzy that makes liberal education marginal — if it is offered at all.

    The Idea of Marcel

    Surely, every American college ought to defend this waning possibility, whatever we call it. And an American college is only true to itself when it opens its doors to all — the rich, the middle, and the poor — who have the capacity to embrace the precious chance to think and reflect before life engulfs them. If we are serious about democracy, that means everyone. By Andrew Delbanco March 04, Get Today's Headlines in your inbox:. Thank you for signing up!