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10 posts tagged "American dream"

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Music taste is not subjective

Matthew Kellenberg | Friday, January 17, 2020

Music critics tend to disagree. However, when they do so, they tend to agree on why: Music taste is subjective. That is, when it comes to judging music, we are individual subjects making independent judgments. I disagree. To a certain extent, our judgments of music are determined by the cultures in which we live and

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LCD Soundsystem finds its ‘American Dream’ at Electric Lady Studios

Lucas Masin-Moyer | Tuesday, February 19, 2019

In June of 2017, I made my way down from my temporary home in Concord, New Hampshire, to New York to see LCD Soundsystem at Brooklyn Steel. This show — which I got into despite a brief fake ticket scare — staged about two-and-a-half months before the release of the band’s fourth album, “American Dream,”

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In search of lost dreams

Gabriel Niforatos | Tuesday, October 9, 2018

It looked like a scroll. A picture from a news-clipping at least 30 years old. The paper had yellowed and crumbled and fallen apart at the edges, crinkled in a thousand different ways. At the center was a photograph showing a young, college-aged man in a basketball uniform, rising up for a fadeaway jumper. My

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Are we true Americans?

Jackie O'Brien | Friday, September 21, 2018

This morning, I traveled an hour to 101 West Congress Parkway in Chicago. After entering the security line at 8:00 a.m. and getting haggled for my water bottle, I waited in another line. After proving my purpose for being there, I was escorted upstairs. I waited more. Then, I was ushered into a large room.

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A moderate American Dream

Erin Shang | Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Several decades ago, a stout man stood on the steps of Lincoln Memorial, in midst of a group of priests and facing a large crowd of dreamers. His determined and inspiring voice reckoned, “I have a dream, one that’s deeply rooted in the American dream … ” Several decades later, a tall, white male sits

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A triumphant return, LCD Soundsystem’s ‘American Dream’ flourishes in honesty

Jacob Galden | Monday, September 4, 2017

It’s been seven years since LCD Soundsystem released a new album, yet considering the breakup, better late than never. After a gaudy farewell show, a documentary and a live album, James Murphy — the mastermind behind the band — and company finally return to assert themselves as the 40-something monarchs of electronic indie rock. “American

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Lesson from a barista

Scott Tully | Friday, April 1, 2016

This past weekend, I was lucky enough to fly home to see my friends and family for Easter. On Monday, I bid farewell to them and to my dog and drove to my flight back to school, an afternoon departure from Boston’s Logan Airport. This trip did not seem unique. I went through security as

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Lecture explores effects of modern socioeconomic gap

Courtney Becker | Friday, March 18, 2016

Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin professor of public policy at Harvard University, gave a lecture on Thursday based on his book “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” about the differences in opportunities for kids from affluent families and kids from low-income families. Putnam said while America has grown in several ways in

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Author examines social mobility, higher education in US

Devon Chenelle | Friday, November 6, 2015

American author, essayist and social critic Peter Sacks examined the relationship between class and its influence on the American college experience, as well as colleges’ current relationship with social mobility, in a lecture Thursday night. “The American Dream is on life support,” Sacks said in the lecture, titled “Climbing the Class Ladder: Do college and universities help —

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Privilege and the American Dream

Adam Ramos | Monday, October 5, 2015

As far as the “American Dream” goes, my father has lived through it all. After losing almost all of their possessions to a communist Cuban regime, his family packed what little they could carry and arrived in U.S, the land of opportunity, when he was just three years old. What would come proved to be a

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