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| February 1, 2008 |
A New Book Pokes Fun at Higher Educationby Olivia Waxman '11Welcome to Beet College, founded in 1755 by Nathanial Beet, New England's wealthiest pig farmer, as a "Collegium for Young Men in the Service of Almighty God and Livestock." Don't remember visiting this elite liberal arts college outside of Boston? That's because it doesn't exist. Rather, it's the subject of Beet, the latest book by essayist Roger Rosenblatt (HarperCollins, $23.95) and the newest satire about college life that will have you rolling on the floor (or in the mud) with laughter. More. . . |
CAB Brings The National to Campusby Jarrod Burton '09On February 16, 2008 the Campus Activities Board is looking forward to packing the Tolles Pavilion (formerly the Annex) with another blockbuster concert featuring up-and-coming indie-rock band The National as part of Hamilton's annual FebFest. More. . . |
Movie Review: There Will Be Bloodby Andrew Peart '10Paul Thomas Anderson's latest directorial effort, There Will Be Blood, begins underground and seems to find the origin of American capitalism and Evangelic Christianity in a subterranean darkness. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, an unscrupulous upstart oilman in turn-of-the-century Texas and California, who emerges from a mine in the film's first sequence to discover America in the shape of a child orphaned in the desert. Day-Lewis's Plainview is a kind of demonic Horatio Algiers, a self-made capitalist tyrant, the founder of an American big-business aristocracy, the prodigal father of an ill-fated son. More. . . |
WCNY Honors Edward Rootby Jacob Murray '09As a connoisseur of art, with a taste for paintings that were well before his time, Edward Wales Root enhanced the way we view modernism. Through his ability to recognize the direction of where art would go in the future, Root positively contributed to the Utica area during a time where an economic slowdown was imminent. This past Tuesday, WCNY aired an hour long special about the life of Edward Root and his involvement with the artistic community, called "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Moderism," which outlined his passion for modern art and the path he took to become one of the most influential art collectors in American history. More. . . |