The New Yorker, 2008-06-02
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fiefoe"Non-Lethal Force" / Alec Wilkinson
__ At three-quarters of a mile, we had trusties from the jail raking leaves, and they were putting in music requests.
"Out of the Blocks" / Paul Goldberger
__ For all the sleek modernity of much of the construction, there's no mistaking the old-fashioned monumentalist approach behind it. This is an Olympics driven by image, not by sensitive urban planning.
"Return to Paradise" / Jonathan Rosen
__ Sometime in 1638, John Milton visited Galileo Galilei in Florence... Milton was thirty years old—his own blindness, his own arrest, and his own cosmological epic, “Paradise Lost,” all lay before him.
__ Though Milton was the much younger man, in some ways his world system seems curiously older than the astronomer’s empirical universe. Milton depicted the earth hanging fixed from a golden chain, and when he contemplated the heavens he saw God enthroned and angels warring. The sense of the new and the old colliding forms part of Milton’s complex aura.
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__ At three-quarters of a mile, we had trusties from the jail raking leaves, and they were putting in music requests.
"Out of the Blocks" / Paul Goldberger
__ For all the sleek modernity of much of the construction, there's no mistaking the old-fashioned monumentalist approach behind it. This is an Olympics driven by image, not by sensitive urban planning.
"Return to Paradise" / Jonathan Rosen
__ Sometime in 1638, John Milton visited Galileo Galilei in Florence... Milton was thirty years old—his own blindness, his own arrest, and his own cosmological epic, “Paradise Lost,” all lay before him.
__ Though Milton was the much younger man, in some ways his world system seems curiously older than the astronomer’s empirical universe. Milton depicted the earth hanging fixed from a golden chain, and when he contemplated the heavens he saw God enthroned and angels warring. The sense of the new and the old colliding forms part of Milton’s complex aura.
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