Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What are we to make of these findings? Are they symptomatic of a pervasive boredom and selfishness? The social scientists cited have little to offer in the way of serious explanation. Assuming these results are linked to broad social causes, but finding none, they blame television, as usual. The argument, which we have heard again and again, is that television, with all its advertising and flashy imagery, has made us materialistic while simultaneously whittling down our attention spans...
...alleged that an argument ensued when she arrived, and an employee placed his hand on her arm in an attempt to escort her off of the premises when she refused to leave...
...retro techniques. Grier gets a '70s long-shot in which we wait for her to walk towards us from 50 feet away (sent up hilariously by Woody Allen in Annie Hall). The screen goes blurry for Forster's bondsman as he thinks. Grier and Jackson carry on an argument behind glass doors...
...Jeffrey Masten. According to the Crimson's Dec. 10 article on the case, Damrosch speculates that Harvard must stint on granting tenure to English literature Faculty because the department is small, presumably meaning that it can accommodate only a choice few in its senior ranks. I have heard this argument before, and I am as bemused by it now as I was when I was on the Harvard Faculty. Indeed, it seems quite likely that, rather than being prevented from regularly tenuring Faculty because it is so small, the department is so small, because it hardly ever awards tenure. Demrosch...
However, shortly after the homicide, police said there had been witnesses to the incident and to an argument Cooper had with a man prior to the homicide...