Word: condescendingness
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"To include a woman in the curriculum simply to increase the number of women would be condescending" to the female sex because the most prominent British authors are, in fact, male, William Alfred, Kennen Professor of English, who teaches English 10, said yesterday.
I sat alone for a long time, trying to reconcile my life and thoughts with the lives these people are leading. A newspaper article, glued in the scrap book, called them "modern-day pioneers" --a condescending label that nonetheless contains an element of truth. When I left the house, I...
Judging from a sample of its dialogue, Passing Strangers, the original musical opening at Adams House this weekend, can find humor in the most serious situations. When Todd, a drifter, meets Lynette, a woman looking for more than another one night stand, she tells him that she's "really going...
"Actually, she was condescending to everyone; but I did notice something in the first few classes that seemed particularly insensitive to blacks," the student said.
Why are African languages and literatures not taught in this University? Is there a craving for ignorance in this palace of learning, or is there an intellectual apartheid--a prejudicial attitude toward black culture? Whatever the answer, the present state of affairs cannot be justified either on intellectual and academic...