Word: maudlinity
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Visiting philosophy professor Tim Maudlin, on leave from Rutgers University, says he spent the first semester of this year living in an apartment which belonged to the philosophy department's administrative assistant, for lack of anywhere else to stay...
...visitors are overwhelmed with the exceptional talent of Harvard students, however. Maudlin says the differences he has noticed have not all been positive...
When he first began teaching his graduate seminar on the philosophy of science last semester, Maudlin says, he had trouble getting the graduate students to contribute ideas to the discussion...
...extremely provocative," Maudlin says. "It was a few sessions before they said anything...
Until the Dick Morris story turned the press into a gaggle of schoolchildren hearing the bells of the ice cream truck, the talk of the convention concerned the maudlin tone of the convention speeches. "This isn't a convention," went a common refrain, "it's Queen for a Day." There's no doubt that this year Democrats gave us not only a balloon drop and a confetti drop but a treacle drip of steadily increasing dosage as well. I found myself cheerfully ascending to high dudgeon--until it hit me that we in the television business bear much...