Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of Undergraduate Education William M. ToddIII, who said he has not yet read the report, saidhe was skeptical of the report's conclusionswithout knowing "its sources and the quality ofits argument...
...This argument is directed especially toward first-years on campus. This year, in speaking with first-years, I am amazed at how many of them are not thrilled with their experiences at Harvard. Very often, they feel the community is rather cliquish, each person having his or her own friends and trying to surround him- or herself with the so-called "right people...
...older students, I am only now learning how it works. The argument has been made that large blocking groups have created cliquish tendencies within Houses. Indeed, it does seem that many students today have kept the same group of friends they made their first year without expanding very much--moreover, many of these friends are roommates, hallmates or teammates from the first year...
...carriers say the start-ups flop because they are undercapitalized and poorly run, offering limited routes and flights, with no frequent-flyer clubs and other features. It is a circular argument, of course. The low fares of the upstarts are based on a cost structure that doesn't have such extras as frequent-flyer programs. And the big airlines force them to burn through their start-up capital by stepping up the price wars...
Lewis's interpretative choice here may not beg too much analysis. It is funny, after all and proves to be robust. Were one so inclined, one might make the argument that it succeeds in large part because the action in Pericles is, in fact, sophomoric. Patched choppily together as the play is from so many different sources--fairy tales, folk stories, classical narratives and medieval saints' lives--it leaves itself quite receptive to having a few more layers slapped across...