Word: popularizers
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...High seriousness is the enemy of intelligent thought,” says Robert Joseph “R. J.” Jenkins of his personal teaching philosophy. As the Head Teaching Fellow for the extremely popular English 154: “Literature and Sexuality,” Jenkins is known for his charismatic, candid teaching style, 24-7 availability to his students, and outspoken opposition to the traditional response paper, a commonplace assignment at Harvard which he calls a “soul destroying genre.” Jenkins’ refreshingly irreverent classroom methods have made...
Mankiw is tall. He has a long, thin torso that exaggerates his height and shoulders that seem perpetually raised near his ears. He looks exactly like the headshot on his wildly popular economics blog, down to the the half-smile, mysterious as that of the Mona Lisa, which never leaves his face. He sits with arms crossed, wearing a button-down denim shirt and one leg crossed, utterly relaxed except for an occasional foot wiggle. For someone with a cult of personality and a class size that sometimes reaches into four digits, he is eminently unthreatening. His aura is kind...
When he retired his Facebook profile after hitting the friend limit, blogs and news services picked up on the story of the overly-popular professor. The CFO of Facebook contacted him about making a fan page rather than a profile. “I haven’t gotten around to it,” he admits...
When he recounts the story of a young man trapping him on the ferry, he displays the kind of wit that made him so popular in the first place...
What were the most popular suggestions? Fees for postering? Bursting the Stadium “Bubble?...