Word: linguistical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approach usually proves successful, thanks to the caliber of the interviewees; unlike Rex Reed, Shenker doesn't have to resort to bitchy observations to spice up vapid quotes. Inevitably, some of the conversations are not all that fascinating, and at least one--a piece on Noam Chomsky as a linguist--is downright boring, an object lesson in how words can get in the way of an explanation. But the book as a whole is remarkably rich; most of the interviews can stand rereading, and the lighter pieces in between make enjoyable breathing spaces...
...this in turn gives American students a distorted, outsiders' view of Arab culture. A major manifestation is a lack of scholars from the Arab world, particularly in contemporary studies. Harvard, for instance, has three Arabs on its tenured faculty, but two are medievalists and the third is a linguist. There are no tenured Arabs at all in the University of Chicago's Middle Eastern program, and only one in a staff of 15 at Berkeley...
...every liberal sees the conflict in terms quite that simple. Linguist Noam Chomsky of M.I.T., a radical opponent of U.S. Viet Nam policy, says that the crucial issue in the Middle East is "that both the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs claim some legitimate right to the same territorial area...
Noam Chomsky, L.H.D., linguist. Shirley (Mrs. W.E.B.) DuBois, L.H.D., author...
...didn't speak to me," says Fechtor. "He just sort of eyed me critically. The second month he began to criticize my work." Like Fechtor, who hopes to go into creative writing or philosophy, Decroux has a strong interest in language--he used to be an orator and a linguist...