Word: culturese
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For all its modest ways Allston/Brighton offers quite a lot to such a project—a solid, stable, working people’s neighborhood, home to many groups and cultures, a slice of the world more vibrant and real than much of what’s left in 02138...
Both the Warden of Rhodes House and I try to impress upon new Rhodes Scholars that things in Oxford are therefore likely to be very different from what they were accustomed to as American undergraduates. They are going to need to understand how others from other cultures think and behave...
Were former Harvard professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow alive today, he would have 200 candles to blow out on his very large birthday cake. Even before the famous poet earned worldwide acclaim for his romantic verses, he taught foreign languages at Harvard and schmoozed with the Cambridge literati of the day...
Much can be lost in translation. This is something that the three members of the committee that will draft the Faculty legislation that would implement the new general education curriculum should keep at the front of their minds. The committee may think—in the words of committee member...
Since Hegel, western European writers and leaders have been pushing the idea of progress, putting darkness, savagery, the past, and societies outside of Western civilization on one end of the spectrum, and light, consciousness, technology, the future, and the modern Western world at the other end. Of all the civilizations...