Word: rejectionism
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Born in Long Island, New York, in 1948, Kominsky Crumb grew up in the type of family she characterizes as "post-war jerk." Kominsky Crumb's rejection of America's "jerk" culture becomes the recurring leitmotif of the book. For her, anything jerk involves "sleaziness, out of control materialism, upward...
Clearly, it takes little more than a differing manner of elocution to be marginalized as an outsider in Boston. It is no surprise then that the comparatively raffish culture at Harvard—epitomized by its rejection of the Boston accent—would serve to alienate the University from...
In part this rejection is understandable. Whatever the particular vices of the Core Curriculum, it is worth remembering that it was a response, at least in part, to a problem with the more traditional model of general education that had already become clear a generation before. In particular, the traditional...
While most ethnic Albanian leaders are ready to accept token independence over the status quo, some are already grumbling that Ahtisaari's plan falls far short of their expectations. Albin Kurti, the leader of the pro-independence Self-Determination movement, warned that "Ahtisaari's proposal does nothing for Kosovo's...
As soon as Summers was out, speculation about his likely successor began. The conventional wisdom in the election of a Harvard president is that the Corporation nearly always elects someone who is the polar opposite of the most recent occupant of the office. In 1701, in seeking to find a...