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Sep 3, 2010 Uncategorized

Empty Time is Unproductive

For a while, sometimes, worrisome responsibilities scurry away from the light, replaced by nothing but big sky above.

Sep 3, 2010 Uncategorized

A wunderkammer of discoveries, compiled by Comment and illuminated for our readers' edification and entertainment. We do not necessarily endorse the external content below. Comment friend and author Sam Martin will be reading from and signing copies of his new...

Sep 1, 2010 Poetry Making the most of college (fifth annual)

Sonnet (3rd place): “SCSI Man Dies”

"Who cares?" I said, if you're an antique hand That stroked the keys of some mechanical Machine, whose lettered fingers often jammed In haste; a weakness anatomical. The wrinkled paper, correction fluid, The bell at line's end; clickity-clack keys, Whiz bang—the...

Sep 1, 2010 Poetry Making the most of college (fifth annual)

Sonnet (2nd place): “Little Reunion”

The Northwoods, Wisconsin I’m sitting here tonight with these alums and one wise colleague, and allegedly we'll solve big problems in this little room. Or else we'll be confused together, maybe, and that's ok— difficult blossoming needs honesty, mainly. And don't...

Sep 1, 2010 Poetry Making the most of college (fifth annual)

Sonnet (1st place): “Another Look”

It seems, at first, as if the broken stones are meaningless. Look closer. Can we say something of value? Notice, here, the way the practiced chisel marks suggest the bones and careful study of anatomy. What of their metal skills? To craft a blade equipped to chisel...

Sep 1, 2010 Essay Making the most of college (fifth annual)

Muscle Memory and the Frenetic Student

Reggie Miller’s buzzer-beaters were thrilling and memorable. Less exciting: the slow, repetitive training he and we go through to thrive at the right times: at the free-throw line or in class.

Sep 1, 2010 Essay Making the most of college (fifth annual)

The Stories of Scientists

“Suppose,” the Gospel says, “one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.'” Darn good advice.

Sep 1, 2010 Essay Making the most of college (fifth annual)

“Ut pictura poesis”?

There was a prolonged period recently when the words “traditional” and “craftsy” were the kiss of death for an artist’s career. One result is that in the past several decades, artists of every discipline have been trained with the primary expectation that they shall produce new and sometimes shocking objects; choreograph daring dance movements; compose provocative musical pieces or poems—and in many cases, skill has been moved to the margins or completely off-stage. But in recent decades the centrality of novelty and the demand for an art centred primarily on ideas and issues has lessened a bit—a pendulum swing away from experimentalism.