Word: patheticism
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Forcing game attendance also makes Yale especially lame. The implementation of this rule shows that a majority of students evidently only care about tailgating instead of supporting their own football team. It seems somewhat pathetic that Yale is forced to take this paternalistic approach to school spirit during a highly...
“The first thing he said was to write a paper about art,” Fingleton recalls. “Two weeks I had been at Harvard, and he came into the class with all these papers, and he said, ‘You think you?...
This resurgence of snobbery is initially perplexing because in our society, and at self-styled progressive institutions such as Harvard in particular, the cries “elitism!” or “snobbery!” are usually debate-ending ones. There is really not an effective...
Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of the film is its pacing and the endless reiteration that Elliot is not right for Caroline and he is The Baxter of all Baxters. For example, there’s Elliot’s mantra, “Compromise is the key to success...
It was painful watching Senators Obama and Clinton, both of whom may harbor presidential ambitions, sitting there politely as Belafonte attacked their proposals and their party. Democrats have suffered from a politically correct-and rather condescending-unwillingness to speak truth to anger ever since the civil rights movement turned militant...