Word: remarkes
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...after class and slowly, you notice, class isn't as great as you thought. Maybe your whole tutorial is fascinated by Celtic poetry and you find yourself looking forward weekly meetings despite yourself. Where does the consensus come from? It's all in the details: an off-hand remark that someone makes, a perfect characterization, the collective curve-setting on the midterm. Slowly, the class opinion converges to a mean...
Closer to home is a remark which surfaced in the wake of the recent UC election fiasco as Crimson writer Parker Conrad interviewed ex-candidate Leonard about the petition brought against John Burton. Conrad quotes Leonard as saying that "John Burton epitomizes everything the average student hates about the council." What gives Leonard the right to speak for 'the average student,' and with such vehemence? Is it all right if we corroborate? Or all right if we do not dissent...
...concerned that some motives behind the impeachment process are racially motivated," he said, qualifying his remark by saying he still does not know all of the facts...
...Maybe they need psychological counseling, like that baseball player John Rocker," mused the Kingfish. "He hasn't said anything crazier than the vile remark from state senator Arthur Ravenel, who called the N.A.A.C.P. the 'National Association of Retarded People' for opposing the flag. The next day he apologized to retarded people, but he hasn't told the N.A.A.C.P. he was sorry. Talk about STUPID...
...dies, he comes back to life. Pilgrim is obviously a dramatization of Jung's doctrines. Too obviously. The action is bracketed by the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and the first day of World War I in 1914, and the apocalyptic deep-think brings to mind Peter DeVries' remark about a writer who figuratively puts his readers in a diving bell and takes them down...