Word: culturese
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I could say I smoke for the same reason I do many things I write about in this column: out of nostalgia for times, and cultures, and pleasures, and bad habits of a more glamorous day. I could say I smoke because my father did, and his mother, though both...
Those converging on the streets of Miami contend that the FTAA would in reality increase poverty rates, discard laws protecting the environment and public safety, and weaken democracy and local cultures. They add that the plan would shed U.S. jobs and hurt farmers.
Edward Said’s assault on orientalist thinking changed the way that societies examine foreign cultures, four experts said last night in memory of the deceased author.
Said, an academic, journalist, writer and activist for Palestinian causes, died in September of leukemia. His 1978 book, Orientalism, critiqued western conceptualizations of eastern cultures.
An anthropology concentrator and the product of an upbringing that spanned continents and cultures, Smith was known for her international interests, her warmth and her remarkable sense of style.