Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese-Americans' search for recognition after the injustice of their internment during World War II is fascinating and a pleasure to read. Professor Minow's chapter on reparations and the final chapter, "Facing History," are well-written and even engaging. They shake out some of the uncertainties in her argument and show us that if we cannot do away with the effects of torture and violence or replace what has been lost after genocide, then at least we can react positively through recognition of the past events and symbolic actions. We can make the past a little easier to bear...
...crime has puzzled detectives from the start. Police said in a press conference Tuesday that witnesses had reported hearing a violent argument between a man and a woman minutes before police arrived on the scene...
...Sullivan claims that homosexual men refuse to let such suffering be for naught. He claims, in short, that AIDS has provided an impetus to the movement for gay rights. Much of the book, in fact, discusses the struggle to obtain equal rights for gays. Sullivan personally makes an impassioned argument for the recognition of gay marriage. He also presents a comprehensive survey of different theories on the genesis of homosexuality that, in spanning Freud to modern psychologists, address the nature versus nurture debate head...
Which brings us to the argument that the show's success is somehow dependent on all-male casting. Believing instead that the show's attractiveness is based largely on the polished talent displayed, I suggest that its humor arises chiefly from six elements: transvestism, sight gags, word play, non sequitors, wit and sexual humor...
...people. But Guys and Dolls, more than most other shows at Harvard, has attracted people from outside the regular theater community, from a capella to the Pudding to dance companies, and the result is a constant flow of energy and talent on the stage. The show makes a good argument for erasing some of the barriers between student arts groups at Harvard, if for no other reason than to increase the pleasure of their audiences...