Word: confusionism
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Characters speak English, even when they're supposed to be speaking Irish. Friel's convention is difficult to accept, especially when his play deals with language at such a fundamental level and is so firmly grounded in realism. Director Howard Davies compounds the problem by failing to distinguish when characters...
The recent Southern Picnic drew quite a fervent student response, too. "It's kind of insulting that they say we eat dirt down south," Texan Julia A. Kidd '98 remarks about the Union's so-called dirt cakes. Maybe HDS was thinking of Mud Pie, a dish that many are...
From the time of its 1978 Bakke decision--which agreed that a white applicant to medical school had been unjustly excluded by an affirmative- action quota--the court has mostly sown confusion on this issue. Goals are O.K., it says. Numerical quotas, in most instances, are not. Just how to...
If you want to witness the visual dynamics of paradigm confusion in a Shakespearean comedy, see Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" now available on video. If you didn't believe in the romantic potential of paradigms before you see this film, you surely will afterwards. For me, it...
Coffey has shown competence in every aspect of his council career; even the confusion surrounding his handling of Yale Game tickets eventually showed that Coffey was working for students' interests. While his actions have sometimes suggested a penchant for posing (as homeless in the Square, or as the "Angry Pilgrim...