Word: hewed
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...post-9/11 politics, much post-9/11 TV has been manly and daddy-oriented. The networks have churned out CSI clones that have mostly male leads. After a ratings drop-off among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer to the "strong women" question - that he learned "to listen to them" - was According to Jim politics. He's the likable hubby who needs Laura to point out his foibles, but he's still...
...theme of “internationalization” is in part a call for more of this kind of fluffy treatment of foreign cultures, sanitized through a Western “pluralistic” lens so that nobody’s feelings get hurt. Meanwhile, students who do not hew a narrow ideological line will suffer in the classroom. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 described Harvard professors to the Boston Globe: “Everybody is a liberal and shows it. They conduct classes in such a way as to make conservatives feel excluded...
Obviously, there’s a middle ground in this debate that we can all hew to—a commitment to a perspective from which we can delight in artworks both popular and obscure. The world would be poorer without Bruce Conner and James Benning and Hollis Frampton, but it would also be poorer without Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott and Monty Python. Those who snub one camp for the other are depriving themselves of a lot of worthy and compelling work...
...Barry's portrait of her mother, a Filipino immigrant with a nasty streak. The story titled, "The Aswang," ostensibly about a legendary Filipino monster, turns into a fascinating examination of how dysfunctional mother-daughter relationships can turn lead to loving grandmother-granddaughter relationships. While most of the stories hew closely to the coming-of-age theme, Barry occasionally slips in a piece, like the one about the 2000 presidential election fiasco, that doesn't really jibe with the rest of the book...
Patricia A. Graham, Warren professor of the history of American education, says her appointment as the director of the National Institute of Education (NIE) was influenced by her acquaintence with Champion, who was directly involved in filling the vacant positions within HEW...