Word: socio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unhappiness seems to bind many of us too often. It's remarkable how many of our conversations here are what Georgetown socio-linguist Deborah Tannen would call "troubles talk," and what most of us fondly refer to as "venting." Even while attending the world's greatest university and being offered so many options and opportunities in every direction, many of us remain dissatisfied. Most Americans would give their right arms to enter this bastion of our misery...
Even over the last 25 years, the paper and the organization have dramatically changed. Today's Crimson is much more geared toward campus issues than was the politically charged paper of a quarter century ago. Members of The Crimson are much more diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status. Typewriters, hot wax and lead slugs have given way to computers, QuarkXPress and an imagesetter...
...bother with. The political concerns are therefore glossed over with alacrity and a minimum of depth and discussion. Someone obviously took a quickly decided that it would make a fantastic opportunity to have people eaten by bugs on screen. The movie seems positively relieved to put aside the socio-political aspects of the book in favor of carnage...
...know: people don't go to see movies like Starship Troopers to be intellectually stimulated. They don't go for profundity, for acting, or for socio-political commentary. They go to see special effects, explosions, action, and carnage. And although this movie does deliver these things with not insubstantial proficiency, it also lays bare the dangers of separating these pursuits from simple quality movie-making and of relying completely on effects to stimulate audiences. Even with the advent of computer graphics and more impressive special effects than ever--indeed, because of such advances--such an approach is bound to backfire...
...continually and freely uses terms like "opportunity," "rich" and "poor" in describing races, arguing that "whites and Asians have more opportunities." Lin is blind to the simple fact that it is rich whites and Asians who have more opportunities, not whites and Asians regardless of socio-economic background. Rich blacks and Hispanics can take Kaplan courses. Poor whites and Asians cannot...