Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's exactly the problem with Elizabeth. When the film thrusts the young thing into a den of wolves as savage and wily as the Mafia barons of The Godfather or the Japanese businessmen of Rising Sun, it wrings its hands somewhat too emphatically at Elizabeth's shrewd, momentous steps to transfigure herself into an emblem to lead her country. If Elizabeth's mutation into the Virgin Queen is the death of her womanhood, and happiness, as the film asserts, her sexuality--that which she renounces to rule the nation--ought to seem a little more respectable...
...biggest part of the problem is that our imitation receives public recognition through the institution's titles and awards. We imitate those who have come before us, then receive recognition for successful imitation, and finally get elevated to a position in which we can publicly recognize others for successful imitation. And because all of our ideas were imitative in the first place, mediocrity ends up begetting mediocrity. The mediocre get recognized, because they do not challenge the homogeneity of the institution, and they eventually accumulate enough awards and titles so that they are in positions from which they can legitimatize...
Emerson would have us avoid this problem by rejecting the institution altogether. He would have us Harvard students reading and writing on our own, perhaps in the woods or on mountaintop. He would have us hatch theories of republican government and generate interpretations of literary works that are unfettered by the latest conventional wisdom or the newest periodization of artistic movements. He would have us think for ourselves, outside the institution...
...learned that consultants and bankers fight evil and poverty wherever they go, I have been mesmerized by their all mighty powers. Whenever my parents would fight, an investment banker from Bear Stearns would come by and exclaim, "I was doing some charts when I heard there was a problem in a residential neighborhood...
...would handle that sort of thing on a case by case basis," Santry says. "If a student came in and said they wanted help meeting costs for the books in a class, we'd be happy to talk about that." He added that the problem in handling books in financial aid is rooted in the wide variance between book costs per student--from...