Word: minds
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Michael addressed the students yesterday, saying "I will be your preacher-teacher, anything you have in mind." He also encouraged students to attend his office hours, to "put your tiny hand in mine." In the fall of 1997, singer-songwriter Michael attended several lectures, spoke with students, and considered teaching the class. Roles said, "Baby, I'm asking you to stay / Please, please, please, don't go away." Yesterday, Michael explained his transcendental approach to the class, saying "Section's natural, section's fun, section's best when...
...author as about its subject. And the authentic power of For Common Things resides not in the originality of Purdy's thesis but rather in the not-at-all-incidental portrait of Jedidiah Purdy. The book is filled with autobiographical detail, and with confessions that spring from a mind uninterested in artifice and concealment: it is the example of Purdy's love of common things, rather than his sometimes boring case studies in the downfall of public culture, that proves effective...
...topic, but one senses that Hodge's criticism is built upon umbrage at the fact that For Common Things, at its heart, is not about intellectual arguments but rather about Jedediah Purdy's passionate hopes. The instance of an idealist is offensive and risible to the ironic mind that can not stand to see ideals expressed or fulfilled: "our being human," writes Purdy, "has become a strong argument against cleaving to demanding values, or respecting them in others." One can sense in Hodge the resentfulness born of this attitude, as Hodge castigates Purdy more for who he is than...
...think one function of courses that are essentially non-quantitative is to give people practice in 'using' books," May says. "That is, going through them with questions in mind rather than reading page after page at a standard pace...
When she resigned as president of Smith College in 1995, Dunn expected to retire to those pursuits full-time. When she changed her mind and accepted a post as head of Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library, she thought it would be her last...