Word: interactionalism
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Video has been one of the instruments used by Egoyan to explore the ways in which people interact. "I think," he says, "that human relationships are a lot more frail and much more tentative than films make them out to be. In most films, people just get together and make connections, things happen. I've never been comfortable with that. I think it's much more realistic to show how precarious and rare the meeting of two people...
Egoyan's characters are complex, full of passion and contradiction. The ways in which they interact, constantly colliding violently, constantly moving on, make one think of Brownian motion. The director does not limit himself to the episodes in the characters' lives which are important for the main story line, but explores experiences and emotions which do not further the cause of the narrative: Zoe's contractual pregnancy, Eric's and Christina's first meeting, Thomas' pick-ups at the ballet, Francis' relationship with his niece and brother...
Harvard does not lack opportunities for student interaction, either. Students meet each other everyday. These meetings take place in classes, extracurricular activities, parties, bars or final clubs. Students interact at meals, in the library or even in the Yard. Harvard does not need a specific location to satisfy what are natural processes for active human beings. The College does not need to declare the Commons a place of intellectual interaction, when this entire place fosters the ability and the opportunity for an intellectual and cultural exchange between students and faculty members every minute and everywhere...
...seminar, which will begin on February 27, is the first of its kind at Harvard to be mounted on the World Wide Web, an information sharing system that allows people to interact with and navigate the Internet--a global data communications network...
...think [the conference] is a greatopportunity for high school students and Harvardstudents to interact in order to reinforce activegovernment participation," said HMC Vice PresidentMelissa A. Rohrbach...