Word: properity
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...voices within my organization, voices of independence,” says Riverton. “They feel we persisted and flourished for so long—why don’t we just continue to work with OCS and OFA and not worry about being a part of University proper...
...inaccurate and unhealthy implication that America is a “homeland.” And the term’s ties to an unfortunate set of policies further magnify its natural lack of grace. Now, in the midst of a contentious presidential campaign, is the proper moment to address the issue of the department’s inappropriate call sign. I want to see one of the candidates propose some—in fact, almost any—alternative. The “Department of Domestic Security.” The “Federal Security Department...
...experienced of professors gain from hearing the insights of their most talented students. But to carry this logic to its extreme, and install the whim of students as the arbiter of course instruction, is manifestly imprudent.The perspective that puts students and masters on the same intellectual plane distorts the proper order of education.Traditionally the purpose of university is to maintain and pass on intact to rising generations the vast treasury of knowledge that our civilization has acquired over the centuries. That we have a canon and classics—although their content may be disputed—testifies...
...attracted to them. Joseph Epstein, in his book Divorced in America, argued that for those on a lifelong mission of self-fulfillment, the very thing that led individuals into marriage?more growth?was bound to lead them right on out; the ties and obligations of wedded life blocked the proper unfolding of the self. But, points out Carlfred Broderick of the University of Southern California's marriage and family therapy program, "total growth, total narcissism, which is supposed to fix everything, doesn...
...course, with worldly knowledge there’s always a catch: if you don’t want to sound like the name-dropping tool at a Rhodes Scholar cocktail schmooze, you’ve got to be ready to offer a little something more than a list of proper nouns. And sometimes, in the wake of “God Bless This Mess,” Crow’s erudite message gets a little garbled. It’s not clear, for instance, whether “Gasoline” is advocating a cut-back on emissions...