by gc | Dec 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
d’arista’s students remember January 23, 2003 – Ival, who studied under D’Arista in 1973… … each three hour class at BU for senior painters ended with many of us saying, “this is the first painting I ever did like...
by gc | Dec 23, 2015 | essay
Professor Robert D’Arista died on Monday, October 12. I don’t know the cause. I haven’t seen the man since I took his drawing class last year, except for once, about a month ago. We were walking in opposite directions in the School for the Arts. ...
by gc | Dec 23, 2015 | essay
I was surprised to find myself actually saddened by Bill Clinton’s confession Monday night. Why should I be? It was no surprise. We’ve known the truth all along. Still, seeing him own up to it–and performing so poorly–somehow disappointed. He was supposed to be...
by gc | Dec 23, 2015 | essay
I love thinking about evolution. It explains so much, not just about how we’re built, but how we think and feel. After millions of years of it, we find ourselves living in the modern world guided, and misguided, by traits that were formed in the wild. Take our...
by gc | Dec 23, 2015 | essay
Dear Mr. Salinger, It has been thirty years since your last published word, and nearly just as long of people wondering why. Maybe you already told us. In The Catcher in the Rye, published twenty years before you closed the door, Holden Caulfield says, “I swear...
