Word: scholaritis
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...Voyager/Criterion also pioneered the plethora of "extras" taken for granted on today's DVDs: the commentary, by the film's director or a noted scholar, which was laid over the sound track, and which discussed the making of the work and the visual and narrative strategies in it; and the supporting materials - director interviews, short films, documentaries on the restoration - that made Voyager laser discs a film class you could play at home...
Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand may be a scholar of pragmatism, but the General Education Task Force he is co-chairing is entirely dogmatic. The preliminary report that the task force released last month refuses to engage with the big questions surrounding general education at Harvard College...
...More profound than the legal impact of this week's legislative tinkering may be the message it sends. According to Liu Renwen, a legal scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the move serves as an important indicator of the attitude of China's leadership. "It expresses the government's stance to the general public. A local police official or judge who used to think, 'We're striking hard. I'm supposed to strike hard,' will see this news and instead think, 'The national trend is to control the use of the capital punishment.' So I think more provincial...
...something about traditional distinctions between high culture and low culture seems to warn me against bringing up a television show—whose most substantial legacy thus far has been coining the word “truthiness”—at my first meeting with a scholar of 20th century literature and art as prominent as Suleiman...
...similarities of ideas and content raise enough questions that you need a purposeful conversation between the editorial cartoonist and the supervisor," said Bob Steele, the Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values at The Poynter Institute, a school and resource center for journalists. Plagiarism can occur in visual as well as printed media, he added...