Based on textual evidence in "The Fall of the House of Usher," what can you infer was wrong with the Ushers? The narrator describes the mansion as a face with "vacant eye-like windows" and a "gloom" about it. What, other than the house, is he describing in The Fall of...
Before Mi-so can gracefully decline, they’re joined by Young-joon’s mother, who ushers them inside. Young-joon’s parents are sweet, but he’s stiff with them, refusing to listen to any advice on how to run the company. So they’re surprised when he asks if they’ve ever ...
I’m Stephen Dubner, this isFreakonomics Radio, we’ll be right back. * * * Okay, let’s rehearse what we know. The creativity scholar Markus Baer co-authored a paper which found that writing a particularly novel cookbook, and getting recognized for it, makes authors less likely to produ...
The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the...
t have enough time after President Biden withdrew from the race. Maybe our country is still not ready for a woman president, especially one who is a stepmother but never gave birth to her own children. Maybe voters just like Trump better. Maybe Americans really do want to go back to a ...
Once you are able to tear yourself away, ushers direct you up the Royal Festival Hall’s several flights of stairs to the fifth floor for a glittering champagne reception that spills out onto a sun-dappled terrace overlooking the Thames. It’s here that the celeb-spotting reaches a whole ot...
This post is about the next step, one we hear so little about: attempting a mid-career transition between institutions. I’ve bottled these thoughts up long enough but realized they are a teachable moment that others may benefit from, as I will loop back to at the end. The point of ...
So far, so not terrible. In reality, the arrangement isn’t nearly so neat and that’s why it’s worth understanding the deal you’re making when your friendly investing platform ushers you into a nominee account with a“don’t worry”pat on the head. ...
That’s one of the central questions at the tender, discomfiting heart ofInfinite Life, but the knowledge that this is a new Annie Baker play could lead audiences to focus on the wrong thing. Baker, a Pulitzer Prize winner forThe Flick, in which movie theater ushers spend lengthy sequence...
"There's not many people that leave in Olympics 100% satisfied and I'd say Team USA is is definitely in that category," said Murphy. "But I think it's one of those scenarios where a couple of weeks from now, we're going to be able to look back and feel really proud of the eff...