Word: sit
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...Like any specialized field of study, literary theory has its own specialized language. Because there are no hard-and-fast rules for what is right and what is wrong, this language is undeniably subject to abuse, and I have had to sit through my own fair share of lit crit nonsense. However, it is a completely unjustified jump from saying that literary theory is sometimes misused to saying that the field as a whole is without purpose. If Munro were to put down his Grisham and read some challenging literature or some relevant theory he might find that there...
Like any specialized field of study, literary theory has its own specialized language. Because there are no hard-and-fast rules for what is right and what is wrong, this language is undeniably subject to abuse, and I have had to sit through my own fair share of lit crit nonsense. However, it is a completely unjustified jump from saying that literary theory is sometimes misused to saying that the field as a whole is without purpose. If Munro were to put down his Grisham and read some challenging literature or some relevant theory he might find that there...
...would all be muttering, going, "there's such and such, she gave her whole life to her mother, but the mother, she always preferred the boys. Keelin at the beginning of the book is very comfortable. She's leading a sort of asexual existence just having her odd joint sitting on the windowsill. She's solitary, and she's set to sit there and teach in the school she went to as a kid and just take care of her mother. And the mother loves Aisling far more. I don’t want to give away the book...
Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) held a sit-in outside the Science Center yesterday afternoon to demand the implementation of a living wage for those who make Harvard clothing...
...sit-in was held in support of the Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality (SOLE) at the University of Michigan, a student group that is rallying for a living wage and disclosure of the locations of factories that manufacture University of Michigan clothing...