Word: mannered
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...write a five-page essay to gain admission to his graduate school class. She described him as a “very old-fashioned, rigorous professor, but very inspiring.” Skocpol recalled that Moore conducted class in a “Socratic-totalitarian” manner, cold-calling students and moving on abruptly if he deemed their answers less than satisfactory. Moore was an avid sailor and, according to Walder, would spend around six months per year living alone on his sailboat, which was docked in Maine. Moore was also known to invite his favorite few students...
...satisfaction with the state of American horrors. Particularly in this time in our history—with a dirty war going on, outbursts of neo-conservative social injustice everywhere, and a pervading sense of capitalist malaise—where are the films that mirror our cultural situations in the manner of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” as a metaphor for Communism? The beginning of the AIDS crisis and the rise of new reproductive technologies set off waves of nutty horror films that took our collective fears and misplaced anxieties and made them mythic...
...overlooking a significant minority within the minority—the multiracial students. Though our society has long assumed that everyone identifies with one race, America is making strides towards acknowledging racial complexities. Nonetheless, many still find it difficult to not get sucked into thinking of race in the conventional manner. Living on a college campus doesn’t make this task easier.“It’s really hard not to get sucked into the single-race track. As pre-frosh we step foot on campus and are immediately bombarded by members of Fuerza Latina...
...speak out when he believes a policy is wrong. But he should not simply tow a party line. Greenspan’s experience shows the possible dangers of the job. Few will debate that Greenspan has been a legendary chairman, but his reputation was tarnished when, in a partisan manner, he dabbled in fiscal policy in 2001, effectively endorsing the Bush tax cuts in his congressional testimony. In doing so, Greenspan was not the steward to the prosperity of the economy that he should have been. Bernanke must learn from and not repeat Greenspan’s actions...
...make what is currently a student-oriented volume more informative to instructors as well. Given the insufficiency of the current CUE Guide format to satisfy the needs of all those involved in undergraduate education, the CUE should continue in its plans to rewrite its evaluative course survey in a manner that will yield helpful information to teachers as well as students...