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In Defense of Country Music
I am from Texas and I like country music. At Princeton, though, I have struggled to understand why people hate it so much. My friends have gone to disturbing lengths to relate country music to racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance, the South’s low education rates, and raging bestiality in Virginia’s hill countries. I sympathize with…
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Rauschenberg’s “Combines”
When asked how he maintains his creative process, the artist Robert Rauschenberg, 81, says that he trusts in his materials without relying on the comfort of sureness and certainty. “Sometimes,” he continues, “Jack Daniels helps too.” It doesn’t come as a surprise that Robert Rauschenberg—Bob, as he calls himself—veered away from his original name, Milton.…
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Let Them Eat Cake
IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood. No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his,…