Word: opinionizing
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...James Joyce's Ulysses? Actually, you haven't read any of it, have you? No big deal, says Pierre Bayard, author of French bestseller How Do You Talk About Books You Haven't Read?; neither has he. And that doesn't stop him from sharing his "very positive" opinion about it. Bayard, a psychoanalyst and University of Paris literature professor, wants to reassure students and bibliophobes that just knowing about a book as opposed to having read it is no reason for shame. "Even the most cultivated among us have enormous gaps in their knowledge," Bayard says. "Many great intellectuals...
...does not harbor grand illusions about poetry revolutionizing the world. “I don’t think poetry should be a vehicle for political or social change,” Nagy says, while acknowledging the fact that it is not necessarily a popular opinion among fellow poets. Indeed, Nagy’s audience is intentionally small. Although an editor of poetry, he has published only one poem while at Harvard. His poems are usually written for one pair of eyes only, after which they are destroyed, never to be read by another person. Nagy’s wish...
...with LHO, I was very impressed with the professionalism. But, at the same time, I’ve always felt a bit uncomfortable with the lack of Harvard students in the productions. DHO actually makes use of the tremendous talent we have among our undergraduate community, and, in my opinion, the productions are equally high-quality...
...seemed highly unlikely a new trial would actually begin on March 19. Seitz, Watada's lawyer, said there would be scheduling conflicts and that in any case he would file an immediate motion to dismiss the case whenever it was finally reconvened. "It is my opinion that Lieut. Watada cannot be tried again because of the effect of double jeopardy," he said, contending that because it was prosecutors who asked for the mistrial, and because the judge granted the mistrial over the opposition of defense lawyers, the prosecutors could not subsequently retry Watada...
...reputation, however, notes Jules Lobel, Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, isn't a legal defense. "While the United States may claim that the accusations fall under the rubric of the political offense exception," says Lobel, "in my opinion the massacre of hundreds of civilians should not be considered a political offense...