Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sociology Mary C. Waters analyzes the state of race relations at Harvard and considers what steps the College should take in order to alleviate racial tension on campus. Her essay, appearing once again in the handbook, does an excellent job of explicating the current situation. It offers a cogent explanation of how diversity brings with it certain new challenges. But its recommendations regarding how to deal with racism on campus are problematic...
...member of Hungary's National Assembly, remembers how his father changed his name from the plainly Jewish Schleiffer to the indeterminate Eorsi. Years later, when the elder Eorsi was in the late stages of Alzheimer's disease, his son found him one day weeping and uttering his first cogent words in months: ``I am Jewish.'' That, says Eorsi, ``was the one fact that seemed to have survived in his ravaged mind...
Some of Roiphe's other points are not backed up by fact or cogent analysis. Her assertion of feminism's lack of alternative viewpoints on date rape was refuted well by Professor Barbara Johnson in her rebuttal of Roiphe...
...have to be an all-out fan of Cy Twombly's -- though he certainly has them -- to welcome the show of his paintings and drawings at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Kirk Varnedoe, it is a handsome affair with a cogent, detailed catalog introduction. Neither show nor catalog exactly inflates its subject, and yet one may not be quite convinced that Twombly, despite the past slights inflicted on his reputation in America, is the powerful artist of the first rank that moma would like...
When playing, Levin's body sways back and forth, but he can still somehow deliver cogent sentences. Students say his lectures are vivid and interesting...