Word: materalize
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...attempt somehow to mater an appalling history by representation, Downfall presents appalling events and figures. It draws us into an appalling world. Yet, at least for its duration, the film puts the viewer in the position of inhabiting such a world...
...dealing with one of your own. In Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, Douthat has penned a scathing look at the culture of the “meritocratic elite” he believes pervades the modern academy—and not the least, his alma mater...
...Mallozzi end up becoming a TF at her alma mater? Her answer is characteristically honest: she started in 1997 for the film-editing resources Harvard could offer her, but has remained at the College because her students have helped her to discover “something I didn’t know when I started…[that teaching would] become this second passion.” But, of course, she needs her creature comforts, just like anybody else: “And [teaching’s] handy—it gives you health insurance and it pays the rent...
...after watching Harvard’s breathtakingly implausible 35-34 comeback over his future alma mater this past September, he promised himself that he would join the team upon matriculation, even going so far as to call up Bears head coach Phil Estes...
Sure enough, I had cause for concern. It’s all gone; Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Christmas parties. And, when I trotted up to my old alma mater to accost the unassuming secretaries, they confirmed the revised holiday schedule. Of course, they couldn’t really articulate the root of the recent changes—when I talked to the principal, she just gave me a roll of the eyes and said, “You know, some people are just crazy.” Cultural sensitivity at its best...