Word: readings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read Steven J.S. Glick's editorial "C'mon, Change the Sheets," with a great deal of frustration. The author offers excellent suggestions for preserving the world's woodlands, but nevertheless, I am very concerned by the dilemma of those "dirty sheets...
...example, in a recent lecture on his book The Old Ones of New Mexico, Professor Coles read a long section about an elderly Mexican woman's thoughts as she approached the end of her life. Then he asked the audience to think about the differences between their lives and her life: differences in culture, language, geographic location, social status, education. As is customary in this class, he asked for reflection on differences, not similarities; he asked his audience to create a distance between themselves and the people they meet in the readings. He doesn't seem to expect the students...
...course has disappointed me. Where I expected a probing exploration of the themes and topics presented in the readings, I have found superficial discussions of poverty and the class system, and near-complete exclusion of gender or ethnicity. Although the literature we read is powerful, the social reflection that is supposed to accompany it is weak and ineffectual...
Perhaps I should have known better. I should have been able to read the ethnocentric slant of the course in its syllabus: "...Still others whose work will be read or viewed have tried to understand not only how various 'different' people live, but to what ultimate...moral and religious or philosophical purpose, if any, they adhere...
Terrific acting, however, definitely makes The Tooth of Crime worthwhile. But if you read the play before you see it performed, you'll get more out of it. Otherwise, you might find yourself sitting in the Cage and wondering what's going on--but somehow still enjoying what you're looking...