Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would say Harry W. had the last laugh, except he's dead. So probably not laughing. But though I'm not sure who won that little battle, I sure lost it. I needed to read for my history paper but didn't get to. I didn't get to because one rich college kid died 70 years ago and more to the point, because someone somewhere still cares. Never mind the fact that the University irreverently uses the sanctuary as a reception venue for presidential fundraising events...
...read?" I asked. "I thought this was a reading room...
...pause.) For Harry Elkins Widener? Yes. The book collector? Yes. But I can't read here...
...only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head on and ask what it really means...
...Students must learn to close read and to arguea point, and our hypothesis is that these twothings--close reading and arguing--are important"in writing for philosophy and moral reasoningclasses, she says...