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ACROSS
1 Green Angry
Birds animals
5 Salon style
9 “Jabberwocky”
opener
13 Les __-Unis
15 Eye layer
16 “For __ jolly ... ”
17 Name on a two-
liter bottle (and
what’s inside)
19 Double-crossers
20 Like
microwavable
meals
21 Valued caches
23 Independently
owned suds
producer (and
the suds in
question)
26 Parthenon
goddess
29 “How cool!”
30 Length of most
TV dramas
31 WWI battleship
Graf __
33 Kin by marriage
37 CIO partner
38 Where Starbucks
began (and a
product it
popularized)
40 __ snail’s pace
41 Note above A
43 Snoop (around)
44 Blockage
45 Slangy “It’s cool”
47 Currently
combusting
49 Pepperidge 
Farm treat 
(and its ideal
companion)
53 Novelist Waugh
54 Scolds harshly
58 Jones with a
locker
59 What’s clued in
parentheses for
each of four
answers, and
found in
corresponding
sets of puzzle
circles
62 Don Juan’s
mother
63 Just
64 __ protector
65 Give a darn
66 Horseshoes turn
67 Dijon dad

DOWN
1 Cop’s quarry
2 “Like __ lump ... ”
3 Marvin of Motown
4 Speech
therapist’s
challenge
5 More virtuous
6 President
Morales of Bolivia
7 DVR “back up”
button
8 Chanted word
9 Add, as a shrimp
to the barbie
10 Go this way and
that
11 Autumn bloom
12 Flip
14 “‘And hast thou
__ the
Jabberwock?’”
18 Music box?
22 Deal with, as
loose laces
24 “Almost there!”
25 Borscht veggies
26 Quaker captain
of literature
27 Fashionable Brit
28 Ship frame
32 Freak out
34 2016 Best
Picture nominee
“__ Land”

35 All-inclusive
36 Salary
38 Like a path that’s
cobbled
together?
39 Allowed to get out
42 Examine in detail
44 Go from cloudy
to fair
46 Wisecrack
48 Tweeters
49 Physician at the
front

50 The first Mrs.
Trump
51 Prying tool
52 Acts like a good
dog
55 Lose steam
56 Elec. or mech.
expert
57 __-Ball: arcade
game
60 Suffix with
concert
61 Big tee sizes

By Adam T. Cobb
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09/13/17

09/13/17

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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

DAILY COMMUNITY CULTURE COLUMN

A lesson from 
the Inklings

Columnist Bailey Kadian talks about 

her time with Inklings at Oxford 

I often think to myself, 

Maybe this doesn’t make any 
sense.

You may ask what “this” 

refers to. “This” can be a lot 
of things. My career, my goals, 
how I see the next ten years 
of my life unfolding, how I 
plan to use my time, how I 
currently use my time, what I 
wish I could get more involved 
in, what I think should happen 
in my life, what is happening 
in my life. The list goes on.

Over the years, I 

have drawn a parallel 
between how I see 
the 
trajectory 
of 

my life and what I 
believe would be the 
most logical way to 
compose its course. 
I have viewed my 
education, 
and 

the 
experiences 

that 
surround 
it, 

as 
an 
entity 
that 

requires a clear, set 
path. I worry that 
my 
studies 
don’t 

necessarily 
align 

with 
my 
long-term 
goals, 

like one day maybe owning a 
business or having a family. 
I have muddled the idea of 
freedom in my education with 
a belief that my future has to 
be practical or “make sense.” I 
have put school in one category 
of learning and everything 
else, like volunteering or social 
events, in another.

It has taken some time to 

unravel such a view of things.

This past summer, I had the 

opportunity to study at Oxford 
and during my time abroad, I 
experienced a taste of what it 
was like to move my education 
outside of its usual constraints. 
I met many different students, 
with 
different 
interests, 

dreams and passions. I went 
into the program thinking: as 
an English major, studying at 
an institution such as this one, 
with faculty of such value, I 
will be able to further engage 
in my study of literature, 
and 
better 

understand 
its place in my 
education.

Many of those 

initial 
hopes 

did 
come 
to 

fruition, but not 
in a conventional 
way. 
The 

experience 
of 

learning 
in 
a 

new place, with 
new 
people, 

taught me more 
than 
anything 

out of a book or 
lecture. 
When 

you are thrown 
into an entirely 
new 
setting 

and 
forced 
to 

adapt, you learn 
the most about 
yourself. I don’t 
mean to project 
this 
in 
some 

cliché 
form 
of 

traveling abroad 
to “find myself.” 
I mean that while 
you are abroad, surrounded by 
new people, you start to see the 
way you view your life outside 
of its usual structures. When 
those boundaries blurred a bit, 
what I found was invaluable.

In 
class, 
I 
saw 
the 

differences that bring students 
together to study a certain 
author or text. We came at it 
from different angles, yet we 
found commonalities across 
what moved us and why. I 
took a course on the Inklings, 
a group of writers who met 
as a weekly literary group in 
Magdalen 
College. 
Among 

them were C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. 
Tolkien, Owen Barfield and 
Charles Williams.

Some students loved “The 

Lord of the Rings,” some were 
fascinated by Lewis’s religious 
writings 
and 
others 
were 

particularly interested in each 
writer’s ties to Oxford and 
their lasting legacy.

The Inklings met to discuss 

their writings, their lives, 
ideas 
and 
dreams. 
These 

writers moved learning into a 
category of living. That is what 
I believe my experience was. 
Beyond sitting in a classroom 
and reading the texts of these 
writers, we found that the 
learning was woven through 
every experience. I learned 
the most about people and 
their lives while sitting on 
the lawn before dinner, or 

riding on a bus to 
an excursion. Yes, 
many of us had 
similar interests in 
literature, but my 
love for Lewis was 
vastly 
different 

than 
others’ 

interest in Tolkien, 
or love for fantasy. 
We learned from 
one 
another 

because of these 
differences.

Our 
education 

stretches 
far 

beyond the limits 

of a course or field of study. 
What I saw before as a failure 
in finding a clear path to my 
future, I now recognize needs 
to be reordered. There is no 
such thing as one way to learn, 
or one way to follow a passion. 
However, there is one way to 
miss it. We can remain too 
limited in what we know or 
what we have grown used to. 
That makes us unable to see 
our need for something new.

When Tolkien and Lewis 

met among the other Inklings, 
they didn’t just sit and confirm 
what they already believed to 
be true. They pushed against 
their views of fantasy, religion, 
romance and language. By 
studying the way these writers 
engaged with each other and 
challenged each other, I feel 
I need to implement these 
habits in my own educational 
experience. The Inklings saw 
one another as teachers, and 
greatly valued every opinion 

about 
their 

work. 
The 

fellowship 
of this group 
encourages 
me to consider 
who I surround 
myself 
with, 

and 
how 

willing 
I 
am 

to learn from 
them.

We 
become 

comfortable 
— and remain 
fixed — in a 
lifestyle 
that 

makes 
sense 

to us, or aligns 
with 
our 

goals. But we 
need 
things 

to disrupt our 
positions. 
We 

need people to 
question 
why 

we 
believe 

what 
we 

believe, or love 
what we love. It 
is only in those 

moments that we can firmly 
hold onto the very ideals we 
build our lives upon. While 
surrounded by so many people, 
you cling to common interests, 
and possibly diverge on certain 
principles. But through the 
common thread of accepting 
the experience, you are forced 
to grow.

In reflection of his time 

with 
the 
Inklings, 
Lewis 

once wrote, “What I owe to 
them all is incalculable.” Use 
those around you to grow 
and learn, and allow the 
views 
that 
challenge 
your 

own to teach you more about 
yourself. Dismissing such an 
opportunity for the sake of 
comfort robs you of plenty. 
Once you abandon the rigid 
track you feel you must follow 
and look outside of it — you’ll 
likely find your path more 
transparent than ever before. 

NEON

One night only event!
‘The B-Side’ overstays its welcome

Documentary provides nuanced if not long-winded look at a beat photographer

The latest documentary from 

Errol Morris (“The Unknown 
Known”) is much too long for 
its subject matter. At the center 
of “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s 
Portrait Photography” is a now 
eighty-year-old woman who 
moved to New York in 1959, took 
up photography and ended up 
capturing many seminal Beat 
generation 
figures 
through 

her camera lens. Among her 
most impressive works is a 
series of 1975 photographs 

featuring Bob Dylan and Allen 
Ginsberg. Later, 
she 
became 

Ginsberg’s 
trusted 
photographer, 
capturing 
him 

as 
he 
aged. 

Dorfman 
turned to more 
commercial, 
family-oriented 
portrait 
photography 
as 
she 
settled 

in 
Cambridge, 

MA, where she 
now lives. Dorfman continues 

to use large-format Polaroid 

photography, even 
past the format’s 
popularity.

But 
while 

Dorfman’s 
life, 

especially in the 
1960s, is naturally 
intriguing, 
Morris’s 
documentary 
is 
cinematic 

overkill. Even at 
a 
lean 
seventy-

six minutes, the 
film feels at least 
half an hour too 

long, and at times more of an 

advertisement for Dorfman’s 
services from a friend rather 
than a prodding examination 
of lives and cultures one can 
expect from a documentarian 
of Morris’s stature. That’s 
not to say the whole film is 
a bust — Dorfman is a warm 
personality 
who 
offers 
a 

rather unique perspective on 
a closely-studied generation of 
people, and her photography 
is as compelling as herself 
— but the film may feel more 
at home as an informative 
program running on a helpful 
television next to a temporary 
art exhibit.

BAILEY 
KADIAN

By studying 

the way 

these writers 

engaged 
with each 
other and 
challenged 
each other, I 
feel I need to 
implement 
such habits 
in my own 
educational 
experience

DANIEL HENSEL

Daily Film Editor

“The B-Side: 

Elsa Dorfman’s 

Portrait 

Photography”

Neon

The Michigan 

Theater

FILM REVIEW