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221 days ago

Gaius Gracchus, with such devotion that although he was, by common consent, the most gifted young man of his generation in Rome, his education was generally held to have played a more important part than nature in forming his excellent qualities… At first, Gaius withdrew from public life and lived the quiet life of an ordinary citizen... He gave so clear an impression of a man who was not only concerned with humble matters for the time being, but would also continue to live that kind of non-political life in the future, that the suggestion even arose in some quarters that he was expressing disapproval of and hostility towards Tiberius’ political ideals. Besides, he was only in his twenties, nine years younger than his brother, who had died before reaching 30. But as time went on he gradually revealed his characters and showed that a life of feeble inactivity, filled with parties and commerce, was quite alien to him. In fact, by developing writing and rhetorical skills and making them ...

Room

224 days ago

A fully furnished bedroom of approximately 110 square feet in a two-bedroom apartment will be available on May 18 th 2009, ideal for a single student or young professional. The current tenant has stayed here for one year and is receiving his master degree in St. Johns University in May. The address is 132-09 Maple Ave., Flushing, NY 11355, walking distance to the major supermarkets in the area and to the 7 train and the Long Island Railroad. The other bedroom is much larger and can be considered for renting after August, now occupied by a college graduate working part-time in the City and doing some research on his own. He is quiet, moderate and traditional, and prefers someone who would not hold parties, or play loud music, or anything like an Empire State standing up in the middle of the Sahara. There is also a tiny female Chihuahua usually running around in the living room. Her name is Minnie (or Mimi, whichever sounds distinctive to you, phonemically ...

A Chinese Student's Interview with the Dalai Lama

460 days ago

A Chinese Student's Interview with the Dalai Lama After the turmoil in early March, China’s media heavily attacked the Dalai Lama as the sponsor of violence in Tibet, setting off a surge of nationalistic reactions among Chinese students and immigrants around the globe. Is the whole world hoodwinked by the simple monk, or are we who built up blind hatred based on distorted information? Either case, as a student supporting the Olympic Games and an individual who has determined to make contributions to the harmonious society, I do not wish to see Chinese and Tibetan peoples hating each other due to lack of necessary communications. With some questions and advice, I came to Colgate University and met with the Dalai Lama in a private house on April 24th, 2008. In fact, after watching the turmoil in Lhasa on the Internet, some friends and I organized a panel discussion on Tibet in the International Affairs Building at Columbia University, where we included not only ...

On Close Reading

747 days ago

Students, as they began to write on the writings of others, were not to say anything that was not derived from the text they were considering. They were not to make any statements that they could not support by a specific use of language that actually occurred in the text. They were asked, in other words, to begin by reading texts closely as texts and not to move into the general context of human experience or history. Mere reading, it turns out, prior to any theory, is able to transform critical discourse in a manner that would appear deeply subversive to those who think of the studying of literature should really be studying of a combination of ethics, sociology, psychology and intellectual history. There are, after all, more important things than mere reading--there is life, for instance. Only specialists could have built their distinctive professional virtue— textual impeccability—into a theory of interpretation. And the current practice of close reading has lasted, ...

Cheng

797 days ago

Cheng might never notice me quietly sitting in a corner managing to get out as much as I can from Latin Prose Composition. But we met in a dinner celebrating the very survival of the course at the end of semester, and were naturally surprised by each other’s unusual interest in Chinese stuff; she the labor issues and I the metaphysics. So it seemed logical that we often engage in discussions of various matters. She invited me to have tea or dinner in her apartment, and repeated the summons whenever I zigzagged my way through the train system coming to campus from my tiny shelter in Flushing. Cheng was a fine Latinist and, without any preparation, shot almost full score on the law school admissions test in sophomore year, but there was nothing ostentatious about her except the confident consciousness of having a mind that moved like a deadly laser among the shams and delusions of our time. This rather awed and frightened me, for I had some romantic fancies of my ...