This column was adapted from a graduation speech. Its author humbly requests the class of '06.5 refrain from reading.
This is not the first sentence of an opinion column. Why should we privilege one sentence above any other? The last sentence, after all, has already been written (in the past), and will continue to sit upon the page (into the indefinite future). One would be ill-advised to search this article for points ...
I once heard a stand-up comedian say, "I'm not a Jew; I'm just Jew...ish."
On the eve of Election Day 2004, I read an interview with Tom Wolfe in the Guardian in which Wolfe seemed to endorse the incumbent president. "I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again."
I didn't fully understand Ralph Ellison's classic novel "The Invisible Man" when I first read it in ninth grade. The dichotomies between light and dark, seen and unseen - these resonated with me as literary tropes, but not as social commentary. My English teacher told us Ellison's protagonist - chronically ...
Every spring, some things start happening. The birds fly north and the baseball teams fly south, and sometimes they collide in midair. Things that were once one color become a different color, I think; or else the things stay the same color but start to taste more like raspberries. Those happy people ...
Now that Bush has finally made a state visit to India, residents of the world's strongest democracy (us) are thinking more about the world's largest democracy (them). It's about time.
A spectre is haunting Brown. Parties are starting too late.
"I never met this dude, but I heard he used to walk around in robes, wearing sandals all the time. He had long hair and this crazy beard and everywhere he went it was this huge scene, like people would freak out and cry. He was at the center of this whole sort of fringe commune thing."
Shopping period is my favorite part of each semester. In the last two weeks I have heard lectures on the Haitian revolution, the structure of the neuron, the first two lines of the Tao Te Ching, and the agnosticism of Anne Bradstreet.
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