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The Annals of Princetonian Academic Lust

Bereavement can be rather grave in certain circumstances, and the loss of decorum- the circumstance I address this very instant- has its sufficient fill of seriousness.

by Max Kenneth on November 17, 2004March 17, 2013

The Philology of the Orgasm

American vernacular explodes ecstatically, euphorically such that it becomes positively contagious—seeping into our speech patterns, our lives. The use of sexual terms  augments our tendency and predisposition for this vernacular, but it too can be found in other languages.  Ben … Read More

by Max Kenneth on February 9, 2005March 17, 2013

Gorbachev in Trenton

This is the man who melted the Cold War. This is the man who led the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. This is the man who signed two broad disarmament pacts and ended communist rule in Eastern Europe. This is also the man who did a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997.
But what was he doing in the Trenton, New Jersey on Monday afternoon?

by Max Kenneth on April 20, 2005March 17, 2013

Let my last words be “good night”

Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -Pancho Villa, last words Let my last words be “good night” Even if I don’t have time to utter them As a Mercedes truck smushes me Under the moon … Read More

by Max Kenneth on April 27, 2005March 17, 2013

Transatlantic Cruising

For a kid with a fear of the dark, public bathrooms, flying, and dying alone, I embarked intrepidly on a transatlantic cruise that mirrored the intended route of the ill-fated Titanic of 1912 from port at Southampton to New York … Read More

by Max Kenneth on September 28, 2005March 17, 2013

Russian to Aesthetics

“TRUST but verify,” goes the Old Russian proverb, and such a maxim can apply to the Guggenheim’s current “RUSSIA!” exhibit, which seems to require further probing – further verification – to find the reason for the obvious compensation attempted by using all capital letters and an exclamation point in its title.

by Max Kenneth on December 7, 2005March 17, 2013

Don’t Wait for Godot

What a supremely difficult task it would be to make Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot a theatrical catastrophe given the rich nature of the existentialism, the slap-stick comedy, the downright absurdism. That said, what a trying undertaking it is to … Read More

by Max Kenneth on February 15, 2006March 17, 2013

The Death of the Annex and its Ascension

Out of all the streets in the world stretching from Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg to Lombard Street in San Francisco, I have spent the most time traversing Witherspoon and Nassau here in my hometown of Princeton, watching the dynamic of businesses, the ebb and flow of success and decline.

by Max Kenneth on March 1, 2006March 17, 2013

Munch at MoMA

It’s a show of love, soul, ravished innocence, sexual passion, emotional pain, Nordic landscapes.
At a time in which art shows tend toward the massive; jam-packed galleries swarming with fat-upper-armed women loaded with streams of banalities, New York has been granted a reprieve at the MoMA by an artist best known for the now-stolen painting “The Scream”.

by Max Kenneth on March 29, 2006March 17, 2013

Back in the C.C.C.P.

It takes an impresario to found a Russian movement. But for a moment’s continued interest in the present, a queer and inexplicable slavophilia must appear to have its dance with history. And now, 15 years after the fall of the … Read More

by Max Kenneth on April 5, 2006March 17, 2013

A Glooming Peace this Play

Jed Peterson ’06 has created an epic version of the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet – so creative and grand that his remains the best Shakespeare performed at Princeton in the past few years and the best play … Read More

by Max Kenneth on April 19, 2006March 17, 2013

The Gates of Life

A French damsel and I decided to take a train To New York to see the Gates and be at play. You were late to the Dinky and had to book It to meet me by the stop to pause, … Read More

by Max Kenneth on May 11, 2006March 17, 2013


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