Word: reconnections
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...getting as predictable as Hollywood's. Sundance movies have devolved into a genre. The style is spare and naturalistic. The theme is relationships, beginning in angst and ending in reconciliation. The focus is often on a dysfunctional family (there are no functional ones in indie movies) that strives to reconnect. Within this genre are a few subspecies: the family breakup film (The Squid and the Whale), the finding-your-family-at-school movie (Half Nelson, Brick), the gay drama (Mysterious Skin). Way too frequently, the family goes on a trip. Given the typical Sundance pace, which is leisurely to lethargic...
...impossible to overstate the disappointment and disgust" among Bush loyalists about how the President squandered his post-9/11 popularity. So Bush is using a pair of momentous appearances this month--his "new way forward" speech on Iraq and his penultimate State of the Union address--to try to reconnect with Americans...
...last night’s panel was to reconnect with Harvard’s indigenous past...
...students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the liberal arts and sciences relates to their lives.”While no Opal Mehta, the 2006 General Education (Gen Ed) proposal seems to unintentionally draw from the ideas of American educational writings in its attempt to reconnect a college education with a post-college life. The report suggests that it is time to take learning out of a vacuum, an idea that’s almost 100 years in the (re-)making.LEARNING BY DOINGWhile the new proposal explicitly references the influence of interim University President Derek...
...Center for Hellenic Studies on the advice of my stoner Classics buddies. Whether by intervention of the gods or professors with clout, I ended up on a plane to Athens. College students often use study abroad as a way to improve language skills, enrich term-time academic pursuits, or reconnect with their cultural heritage. I knew only enough conversational Greek to say “No, stop, I don’t want to do that,” I study American History and Literature, and I’m less Greek than a Delta Gamma pledge. But by August...