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...Marxist would merely interpret Bill Cosby as the culmination of an oppressed minority which rises up, only to fall into the ruinous capitalist practices of Yuppiedom. My Grandfather bypasses the professional jargon with his simple, yet all encompassing vision of Cosby's influence on the American public...
LITERARY criticism is a serious business, and it is growing ever more popular in academia. But its drawbacks are obvious. With all of the technical readings, the jargon and the warring factions of the "traditional" anti-traditional critics, Albertism might have a chance to survive. Besides, the condominium complex in South Florida where it all began is a lot more appealing than New Haven, where most of the other literary critics settle...
...pavement; more than a few died in the fall. After the regime bricked up the windows, the resourceful tunneled beneath the 20-ft. "death strip" and its mines and gun emplacements. The most daring efforts came from Wall jumpers, who confronted head on the "antifascist protective barrier," as the jargon of totalitarianism described the Wall. In their jagged sprints, dodging searchlight beams and bullets, they created a theater of longing where the value of freedom -- and the maleficence of its denial -- found an extraordinary visual expression. In 1962, in one of the most publicized instances, 18-year-old Peter Fechter...
...result, to use Ec 10 jargon, salaries, benefits and wholesale prices bear no relation to traditional market factors. For example, subsidized gasoline is sold to the public at seven or eight cents a liter when it really should cost between 40 and 50 cents...
After that, Harvard and its newest, most highly publicized union will face the difficult task of translating the contract's legal jargon into the day-to-day language of the workplace. Says Manna, "Some of the administrative details haven't been worked out yet. We're not sure exactly how everything will work...