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...have revised the lecture system. Formerly a lecturer would often leave the classroom immediately after delivering his lecture, but now he takes time to meet with students who want in analyzing problems that arise less time is spent in lecturing more in study by oneself...
...leaves many ideas and even sentences unfinished and his disjointed logic often requires several readings of a given passage to unravel, Cavell tries to discover how to read Walden "in the high areas." The experience should ideally recreate the life in Walden, a difficult task which requires losing oneself through reading in order to rebuild oneself...
...thou canst not be false to any man." From this point on to its decline in the nineteenth century, the paradigm of sincerity was an idea of self imbedded in social consciousness, with a keen sense of one's dramatic relation with other men. The existence of truth to oneself was linked to the requirements of one's role in a community...
Tying his beliefs into a larger social and political context. Laing said that "after six years of medical school, I know less about my own body than I did when I started. I've had to release the experimential knowledge of oneself which relates to the social and political control operations which get right into our bone marrow and endocrine hormonal system...
...exodus of the Asians has already had an obvious effect on the economy of Kampala. Jobless Africans are clamoring for work at the city's hotels, which are running short of bread, soap and even gin; one must drink vodka to immunize oneself against the mosquito bites. Restaurants guard their menus like gold: most of the printing in the city was done by Asians. In the commercial sector of Kampala, nearly 80% of the shops are now shut and barred; in some the stock can be seen gathering dust behind the steel mesh placed across the windows. There...