Word: genericism
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...have no idea who Uncle Duke is, and I don't really care. I've tried reading Doonesbury a few times--it wasn't easy getting past that over-stylized and repulsive artwork--and I found it to be singularly not funny. Trudeau's "humor" is, at best, generic, and his characters are either stereotypes or hold-overs from the '60s. To claim that the loss of Doonesbury is a cultural tragedy is like suggesting that Friday the 13th Part III is progressive filmmaking. It's about time Trudeau put away his crayons. Doonesbury's wide appeal just proves...
...whisper of dialogue-to make a lasting emotional connection with its audience. This is particularly true of films about figures whose claim on the attention of the world is exerted not through force of arms but through force of mind and spirit. The temptation, which has become almost a generic convention, is for film makers to adopt a dehumanizing reverence, which creates a holy void, a sort of white hole, at the center of the film. Meanwhile, they hope that background bustle will distract audiences from noticing that the protagonist seems to be on permanent leave of absence...
...WHAT A PARADISE it seems. By administrative fiat, University Hall has banished all racial differences from the Harvard campus. No longer, in the administration's eyes, are there separate minority groups with separate minority problems. Instead, we are all generic Harvard students with generic Harvard student problems...
...place of panels honestly addressing special problems of discrimination, insensitivity, and low expectations, which many minorities face at Harvard, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) offered and featured one lifeless generic panel for all students. Vaguely entitled "Coping With Undergraduate Life," the panel did not address minority concerns explicitly, but featured two Black men, a white woman, and a white man, exuding happy diversity...
...administration losses over further subtleties of student life in maintaining that we are all just generic Harvard students. Year after year, there is uncorroborated grumbling by minority athletes that minorities just aren't fielded equally on some squads. Countless students report slight and not-so-slight insensitivity toward minority students by section leaders. Incidents like these, if and when they happen, happen to individual students not because they are Harvard students but because of their affiliation with a group...