Word: rejectionism
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And of course my first call ended with a flat-out rejection. Being lawyers, many of them have no problem telling me exactly what to do with my headset.
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...
One tall young man scans the white sheets taped to the window, then briskly walks away. Another girl lingers, her brow furrowed as her eyes trail down the register. On the other side of the glass, a disappointed student collapses into an armchair, course guide in hand. �...
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...