Word: interactionalism
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...about contemporary art. When they put together E-flux Video Rental, they were concerned less with the videos themselves than with the situation in which they were presented.As Lambert-Beatty put it, “It’s not like Netflix.”Their goal was to interact with the community around them—New York’s Chinatown—by presenting high art material in a format that most people were familiar with. Therefore, they modeled their “social sculpture” on the neighborhood video rental store, and the work...
...bosses have shaved months off my life. But they have also been some of the most gifted people I've known. This correlation occurs with reason: talented people can get away with much worse behavior. I don't want to enable monsters. In fact, I don't want to interact with them. But neither do I want to work in an office staffed solely with smiley faces. Imagine American Idol without Simon, House without House, Family Guy without Stewie. Colleagues of Steve Jobs bear the scars, but wouldn't you prefer him on your team than theirs...
...differences of others. “It seems like a waste not to take advantage of Harvard’s diversity while you’re here,” she said. Fiona K. Fong ’08 said her blocking group’s diversity made her interact with people who were different from her. “If I didn’t block with them, I would’ve tended to just hang out with people from my activities or classes, like purely Ec majors or figure skaters,” said Fong...
...undergraduates was to really use whatever time and energy I had trying to improve the quality of their educational experience.” Swamped with work and taking home a “full briefcase” every night, Bok said he did not have the chance to interact with undergraduate students as much as he did during his first tenure in Mass. Hall.“I may not be breaking bread with them in the Houses,” he said, “but I will be doing something that will affect their lives in positive ways...
...tight-knit structure of these groups doesn’t necessarily mean that students involved don’t interact with non-members. “It’s a lot easier to talk with people who can relate to your type of experience. That’s a way of dealing with it, but also a way of moving beyond it,” says Charles J. Hamilton III ’07, the president of the Black Men’s Forum...