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Word: manner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will insist that despite the pomposity of grandiloquent phrases about Human Rights and endless phrase-mongering about liberty and justice, one must always judge a nation by the quality of its humanism and the manner in which it answers these simple questions: Are your poor clothed and fed? Are your oppressed employed? Do they have access to free and high quality health care? Do they share in the fruits of your nation's bounty...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature? | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...historical content of a given age. As a pedagogical tool, it is nothing more than another means of trying to cognize the nature of physical and emotional reality. As such, Afro-American literature is simply the reflector of the life of Afro-American peoples, which shows us the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they lived, the manner in which they were treated by the oppressor class, the manner in which they transformed themselves in historical time and the various forms which have been used to capture the essential features of their ontological being...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature? | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

Before I begin, I need to point out that I see truth as being central to any discussion about pedagogy. Therefore, I begin my teaching with what I call the three-fold synthesis of truth: I let my students know that I perceive the world in a particular manner and because I am a social being I possess certain values. Thus I am neither neutral nor unbiased in my presentation of pedagogical materials. I go even further. I say that each society has its own heroes and villains, its own ideals of man, and its own values. Whatever...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature? | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...used to capture the particularity of Afro-American man and woman in literature, through the explication of literary text. At once, therefore, I am concerned about the dialectical interrelationship of form and content, bearing in mind the Hegelian notion of the impenetrable nature of form and content, and the manner in which each penetrates the other...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature? | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...Henry, Charles Repole moves with the erratic precision of a broken watch spring, but his tap and soft-shoe dances possess the style that Walter Mitty's dreams are made of. He looks astonishingly like Eddie Cantor, the show's original star, but his manner is endearingly cuddlesome, rather like Joel Grey's. Choreographer Dan Siretta's dance numbers blaze across the stage like prairie fires, and the smashing chorus girls are a bouquet of red, red roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: That's My Baby | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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