Word: argumentative
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...providing the graph that accompanied his article on grade inflation (Opinion, “The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation,” April 23). The graph, showing the percentage of students on the Dean’s List from 1921 until now, supports my argument rather than his, and my concern rather than his ho-hum attitude on the matter...
...protest serves to demonstrate would be lost. That doesn’t mean the protesters must go on hunger strikes or try self-immolation, but it does mean that they will be taken more seriously by students and administrators if their requests for academic protection are based on principled argument rather than raw self-interest...
Professors can and should give students certain exceptions from academic requirements. Even when a student’s absence is in some way voluntary—observing a religious holiday, going home after a death in the family—we allow exceptions on the argument that these commitments are too important for students to be asked to compromise them. But these exceptions are neutral and valueless; we don’t allow professors to give Jews exceptions but not Catholics. Exceptions based on one’s commitment to the living wage, however, would not be neutral?...
...Duchess of Windsor had more spending power; but Jackie crystallized an emerging notion of modernity for both the elites she moved among: the newly prosperous middle classes and those still striving to move up. In the cultural politics of the cold war world, her elegance also made an irrefutable argument for the U.S. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood why the Russians have a word like babushka.) Thin as an icicle, as up-to-the-minute as a nose cone, wherever Jackie was, there was the New Frontier...
BLOCKED. Publication of The Wind Done Gone, a reinterpretation of Gone With the Wind told from the point of view of a slave; in Atlanta. A federal judge rejected author Alice Randall's argument that her novel was a parody, instead saying it infringed on the copyright of the original novel written by Margaret Mitchell, whose estate had sued in June to stop its publication...