Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...especially when you consider that section-size always goes over the set figure. "Filled to capacity" in the Core doesn't mean 17, it means something closer to 20 or 25. We try to set such high standards for academic excellence at Harvard that it is a shame to see the University waste our learning opportunities for easier housekeeping. The size of Core sections at Harvard is definitely one standard that should not get any higher...
Appel also criticizes postmodernism, which he accuses of fostering a particularly nasty brand of cynicism. Something has gone awry, he writes, when our media-induced cynicism spreads to the degree that "we find ourselves blinking with astonishment and perhaps shame at the televised spectacle of dissident Chinese students carrying a twenty-foot-high paper-mache statue of Miss Liberty in Beijing's Tienanmen Square, and dying for it a few days later...
Each different scene quickly develops its own characters and a clear theme. With a fluency that puts many full-length plays to shame, the scenes are closely slotted together in a way that leaves no room for confusion...
...triumph of the West was in many ways a bloody shame -- a story of atrocity and rapine, of arrogance, greed and ecological despoliation, of hubristic contempt for other cultures and intolerance of non-Christian faiths. Nonetheless, as Hugh Thomas argues in A History of the World, "it is obvious that it is Western Europe ((and)) North America which, since the 15th century at least, for good or evil, ((have)) provided the world's dynamism...
Instead of questioning the value and the qualifications of Latino faculty and Latino studies, Harvard should be looking at itself with embarrassment and shame...