Word: originalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first" from" line. There are generally two "from" lines in the header. The second "from" line can be easily modified. Check to make sure both "from" lines indicate the same origin for the message...
Forget Boston and New Haven. Broadway's favorite tryout town is still London -- of 29 current or soon-to-come Broadway productions, 13 are at least partly British in origin. That number includes not only Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals but also works by Americans, such as Angels in America, Kiss of the Spider Woman and now Carousel. David Mamet's next drama, The Cryptogram, will debut in London before it hits Broadway, just as his Pulitzer prizewinner Glengarry Glen Ross...
Most Americans think of the Swatch as a trendy timepiece that was embraced by everyone from K Mart shoppers to the owners of SoHo galleries. But in its country of origin, Switzerland, the Swatch represents nothing less than an amazing instrument of industrial rejuvenation. Before it came along, the Japanese had more or less usurped the Swiss as the heavyweight champions of the watch business by substituting their cheap and reliable digital technology for Switzerland's legendary craftsmanship. The question now is whether that industrial formula can work for -- of all things -- automobiles...
...does the first property of forbidden speech include only those insults that are based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability age or national origin? What about insults that are based on a student's physical appearance, academic performance, wealth or lack thereof, intelligence, social ineptitude, etc." Why should these kinds of insults not also be prohibited, if the Law School's goals is to promote a less intimidating, demeaning, degrading, hostile and seriously offensive environment? Why not also prohibit all nasty or even mildly insulting language? What about redness and unfriendliness...
...second property of forbidden speech at the Law School is that it is "commonly understood" to convey a hatred for human beings on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or national origin. But what is "commonly understood?" Will a list be drawn up of all the words, name-calling and epithets that this category includes, so that the speech that is deemed to posses this second property will be consistently determined and clear to all students (including foreign students who may not know what is "commonly understood" to be hateful...