Word: scholar
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Reflecting on Prof. Shelby Steele's performance as a scholar last month at the Kennedy school of Government's ARCO Forum, prompts my protest against the sorry state of political discourse. There is plenty of toleration for error in an entertaining, "show-biz" format, but little tolerance or patience with truth. Steele, famous for one, thin, bestseller, "The Content of Our Character," said the difficulties of Blacks today result from "a failure to adjust to freedom" and repeatedly denounced policies like affirmative action as "preferences...
...have to be a dance scholar to get most of the jokes. There are lightning tours of the classics: the distinctive, flattened arm gestures in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faun, several quotes from Swan Lake, including the Prince's defiance as his mother points imperiously at her wedding ring -- "No, I will not marry any of these boring girls" -- and so on up to Paul Taylor's Airs. As White Oak continues to tour (Washington; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, are among the upcoming cities), Misha will vary the jokes on whim...
Even though Masten is a "cultural studies"scholar rather than a supporter of the canon, heagrees that the traditionalist 10b providesstudents with a necessary grounding...
...attended the forum sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government and the Institute of Politics on February 16, 1994. The speaker was "conservative" African-American English scholar Shelby Steele...
...obviously failed to recognize the contradictions in his work and in himself. After reading his work and hearing his lecture, I would argue that perhaps Steele himself is an "affirmative action baby," to borrow a phrase from Steven Carter. I find it hard to believe that an English scholar who has been an open critic of affirmative action would have the audacity to present some opaque social theories to the Harvard community. I think that if steele is to continue advocating that African-Americans be "held accountable" by whites, then he must be careful not to exclude himself from such...