Word: fictioneering
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...lack of a “Great Books” system of education! While I wonder whether this system can be intellectually defended, my advisor, who gives an informative survey of modern political thought, simply admits to his students that the story he is telling is just a fiction spun for pedagogical, pragmatic purposes He believes that undergraduate education is made of such compromises...
...isn’t actually true. Harvard has long falsified this particular insight: We all know that it is perfectly possible to do brilliant work on beef and prunes (or pizza and HUDS bagels). But in Cambridge, England, it is in everyone’s interest to keep this fiction going...
...culture personality of questionable permanence will send us on our merry way, while figures of real substance wait in the wings. We deserved better, and now we deserve to bitch about it. At the very least, Harvard might have pitched its choice to the right generation of adolescent fiction readers—and booked us R. L. Stine...
...destroyed, the hearts broken, and the lives taken under Henry VIII’s reign, and, from a more modern perspective, the commerce of women between upper-class families. The film, directed by Justin Chatwick, is as tragic and gory as it is decadent and passionate. It tells the fictionalized story of the rise of the Boleyn daughters—Mary and Anne—in the English court of King Henry VIII, and how both come to bear his children though only one ascends the throne. Natalie Portman ’03 (“V for Vendetta?...
...issues?AT: Personally, it only could have happened because up until recently I was overly concerned with how the work that I produced would reflect on me as a person...Working on this book I had a turnaround where I decided I wanted to not feel compelled to do fiction that would make the hypothetical reader think, “Oh, the guy who wrote this must be so sensitive or cool.” It may have even swung too far in the opposite direction where I was almost challenging readers to dislike me and that ended up being...