Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Theodore Roosevelt for the role of realism and its Prussian-accented cousin realpolitik in international affairs. Just as Kennan's odd admixture of romanticism and realism helped shape American attitudes at the outset of the cold war, Kissinger's emphasis on national interests rather than moral sentiments defines a framework for ^ dealing with the multipolar world now emerging. He has produced one of those rare books that are both exciting to read and destined to be a classic of their genre...
...establish a new framework, we need to beginwith a frank acknowledgement of the basichumanness and Americanness of each of us" because"If we go down, we go down together," he writes inRace Matters...
...again, Schami's narrative tactic seems more like salesmanship. He uses this structure not for any purpose so much as to revel in it for its sake. Modern authors like Calvino use a similar framework to lay bare all the peculiar social and intellectual conventions of reading , to strike at the very heart of our understanding of narrative, to unravel the fabric of reality-to bring the universe of perception to its knees. Schami uses it because it's cool and exotic...
...should not only like to refute their argument, but to reject the framework from within which these authors have chosen to work. Audre Lorde wrote in Sister Outsider that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." In this spirit, working from the immediate ideal of incorporating minority experiences within race-blind departments will only subsume these very real and academically viable experiences as unworthy of educational specialization...
...added that a two tiered structure, that of advisory groups offerings input to a main decision making body, seemed to be the most manageable options at the time the framework was conceived...