Word: rationale
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If Mansfield was trying to open rational discussion on campus, he should have provided an example of such discussion himself. Instead he created a useless, damaging incident that left bruised feelings all around.
The most sterile, empty debate at Harvard is over the question of diversity. Not only is there no rational dialogue on the issue, but there is no agreement on terms. No one can expect any agreement when the terms that are hurled around are so big and so threateningly fuzzy...
The narrator's mother and father died in a car crash when he was young. Left without either of his own, he was always attracted to other people's parents, insinuating himself upon those of his schoolfriends. In time he befriends his in-laws. The moment that this rootless orphan...
The reader feels empathy for the narrator, and is struck by McEwan's psychological insight. But McEwan is incisive because he addresses the issue which lurks at the back of every mind. Black Dogs challenges us to confront the tension we all feel in the meeting of science and religion...
The primarily male naturalists of the 18th century focused almost exclusively on sexual traits when classifying female apes and humans, rather than on rational or cultural traits, Scheibinger said.