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...only did the speaker demonstrate the savvy that garnered her the speaker??s gavel in the first place by wrangling the votes to pass a bill whose epitaph pundits had been composing since the notorious town hall protests of Congress’ August recess, but she also, as columnist Camille Paglia wrote for Salon, “conclusively demonstrated that a woman can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as anyone in the long line of fabled male speakers before...
...feminist” was inappropriate. When asked about the speech, she called the organization’s opinions “anti-woman” and “anti-feminist”. Narefsky attended an event in the fall with a “Feminists for Life speaker?? and said that she was dismayed by the comments. “I felt that women were talked about as though they were children or objects and not as though they were active, thinking adults,” she said. —Staff writer Sofia E. Groopman...
...bulwark supporting this argument is Everett’s Immediacy of Experience Principle, which can be summarized (with some liberty) as the idea that the Pirahã do not speak about anything outside the realm of their own immediate experience or that of someone who is alive within the speaker??s lifetime. This assertion itself is said to predict the aforementioned linguistic deficiencies, and through its implications, to defy some of the most basic tenets of the linguistics world. And here is where the road gets rocky.Everett’s claims fly in the face of some...
...there wasn’t very much God in there,” and Tribe offered his “apologies to the separation of church and state”—attendees noted that there was no such thing as a “typical speaker?? or a “typical subject,” and that views from across the political and religious spectrum are often highlighted...
...participants—many of whom were Cambridge residents not affiliated with Harvard—expressed positive reactions to the presentation. Panagiotis Angelopoulos ’12, who came to the talk because of his own interest in Latin American human rights, said he appreciated the speaker??s unique perspective. Rebecca E. Taylor, a community member and recent college graduate, praised Sheffield’s “adept use of academic phrases” while remaining “accessible.” The presentation was the first in a monthly series entitled “Student...