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In 1995, Oliver Stone's Nixon gave us the familiar, shadowy president, emphasizing his most savage and conspiratorial qualities.
(It might actually be a good thing if academic economists spent more time educating the world about familiar truths and less time chasing the latest intellectual trend.)
And Thomas concludes that Sacks succeeds for all the familiar Sacks reasons: Because he shows "how patients who are truly isolated and insulated by a disease can retain their humanity, their dignity."
' " Apparently unsettled by this effective one-two punch, McCain responded with a rambling compendium of his most familiar lines on the subject of campaign finance reform culminating in his repetition of his not very funny joke from last night about how Bush should get a better picture of McCain for the attack ads running in New Hampshire (which aren't in fact connected to the Bush campaign).
The liberal arts need not be regarded as ends in themselves--that is, to produce artists, writers, and other practitioners--but to create well-rounded human beings who are passing familiar, if only subconsciously, with the underpinnings of their society based on the bedrock of their culture.