Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today...
...beggar: a pointed and cynical response to declared vulnerability. What prompts us to mock sentimentalism in the public sphere--what makes it morally acceptable to make fun of Celine Dion's music, for instance--is the suspicion that such music is itself a form of cynicism, a manipulation of America's overwhelming urge towards the saccharine. You get the sense that when Dion and her kind are singing about love they are not singing about their own love at all: and erzatz emotion is laughable. But it takes moral callousness to mock somebody's genuine sincerity. After all, what...
...work load at Harvard is significantly less than what I did as an undergraduate, so I don't consider...complaints legitimate," says Professor of History William E. Gienapp who teaches History 1624: Jacksonian America, 1815 to 1845 which has about 200 pages of reading a week...
Visiting lecturer at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) James W. Fraser does not expect his students to know the answers when he poses questions in Harvard Divinity School course 2921, "Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America...
...fact, he was inspired after teaching the course for the first time two years ago to write a book, Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education in a Multicultural America, was just published...