Word: dialecticism
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Cameron was eager to plumb these dark waters. "I liked the comedy potential of the lies, the facades, the allegory of relationships," he says. "For me, this movie is about the unknowability of people. And I loved the potential of Arnold playing the spy role. Arnold lives in a strange...
If often seems that Harvard is made up of two kinds of students: those who call actually define words like "dialectic" and "apotheosis," and those like me, who mostly view classes as they do green vegetables--no doubt nutritious, but to be skipped whenever possible.
But as one progresses through the text, it becomes clear that Berman has a different agenda than the simple usurpation of egregious male hegemony. Rather than straighfowardly singing the virtues of dog, this book actually structured according to any unexpected dialectic. It ends with the not-so-revolutionary preposition that...
The brilliant opening scene, appropriately set in a movie theater, sets up the strange dialectic between fact and fiction when Dr. Petiot, unimpressed by the evil of the vampire on screen, mutters his disapproval: "This is ridiculous and clumsy." As the camera freezes the doctor's shadow, the viewer is...
Harvard is not educating us poorly. Rather, it could do better with what it's got. Harvard's goal, I suggest, ought to be the complete restoration of a Socratic dialectic in our education. An ethic of continuous self-improvement demands more than just CUE Guide evaluations.