Word: argumentative
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February. Write like hell. In a blaze of term-billed printing and caffeine, a thesis will emerge. Last-minute sources will be consulted and all the "get-to-that" notes will come back to haunt you. Much to your surprise, you will have an argument with cogent research and a grasp of the field. You will go to your advisor with a problem, but in explaining it you will figure out the answer and rush out to write it down before you forget. Save that insight, and back it up on the network, your parents' computer and in three...
...introduction to the chronologically-arranged letters, Bernard sets forth a number of tacit lines of argument for which the letters serve as narrative evidence. One such argument consists of a demand for a reevaluation of Van Vechten's place within American literary history. Van Vechten, whose literary reputation came under fire during his own time (it has since suffered an even worse fate--oblivion), was a white writer, literary gate-keeper and a "dedicated and serious patron of black art and letters." He spent much of his time frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black...
...story of the Harlem Renaissance. The questions raised by the book, no doubt, relate to a larger project. It is a testament to Bernard's accomplishment that this collection of letters, spread out over nearly 40 years, possess distinct and coherent themes and can support a plausible and important argument for a reconsideration of literary history...
...Miss Julie) only permits the former.Guest's actors perform odd, dream like sequences and voracious displays of onstage sexual passion. The orchestration of these actions, while graceful, appears forced and destroys the play's intensity, turning the dramatic flow from performance to performance art and back again. After an argument about the impracticality of love without money, indie rock seems somewhat inappropriate especially in a balletic sequence.The theatricality of the play zooms forward in Act II, after the initial seduction and Jean's growing conflict between his duty to Kristine and the count and his passion for Miss Julie. Broadwater...
There are many fallacies to the comments made by Harvard officials against corporate sponsorship. First, I doubt Harvard's argument that alumni abhor the idea of corporate sponsorship. Such abhorrence, if it exists, probably lies only in a small group of older alums...