Word: shorthands
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And—most pertinently for us—in recent thrillers, “Harvard” functions as convenient shorthand for “skeptic” and “snob.” Robert Langdon, hero of The Da Vinci Code, is a “Harvard symbologist.” NBC’s forthcoming miniseries based on the Book of Revelation (and catchily entitled Revelations—I can’t wait!) features a skeptical Harvard astrophysicist, Professor Richard Massey. All of this augurs well, we feel, for the success of our novel...
...HAVE TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU SPEAK TO EACH OTHER? WERE YOU ABLE TO USE YOUR SHORTHAND FROM LIFE TOGETHER...
...shorthand was so short that when we got to the set we were almost monosyllabic. In an ideal way, not in a noncommunicative way. We didn't have to say very much, and that's how it should be. You have to resist the temptation to talk stuff out a lot. And I try to encourage other actors to do it too, without any cruelty...
...such principles, everything becomes a power struggle. There is now a demand for the study of non-Western civilization, nonmale, nonwhite. Aristotle is seen only as a white Western male. So is Karl Marx. My book was written by a white, Western male, which means, in this kind of shorthand, there must be something wrong with it. One knows that the charge of sexism exists, and if you're called a sexist, it's a kind of crime. It's like the old days in the 1950s, when people had to be careful about things that very powerful critics could...
...abrasive’ a lot,” he says. “Maybe I overused that. I think it became a cliché, as it was such an easy way to capture him. Everyone would agree that he’s certainly a brilliant mind, and abrasive was shorthand for perhaps not always being sensitive to others’ feelings. I think it was a reputation that continued when he was at the Treasury because he would be outspoken in dealing with reporters and wasn’t afraid of tackling difficult subjects...