Word: spokenness
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...last film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic.? Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday?s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue:? Maya.? That's the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico's rainforests, in the state of Veracruz. ""I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre," Gibson told TIME, which was given an exclusive peek at the filming for a story to appear...
Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser, who has frequently spoken out in Summers’ defense, said on Wednesday that the issue of anti-Semitism was “never the slightest thing on my mind” during the crisis that forced Summers...
...When it came to women and tenure and black academics, Summers was often criticized on the same grounds.Summers was blamed for the departure of star Professor Cornel R. West ’74 after he criticized the academic’s foray into spoken-word stardom. Similarly, Bok took his faculty to task for pursuing lucrative asides at the expense of more academic endeavors.Bok was also the president who first purchased land in Allston—a project that Summers was intimately involved in.Perhaps the most unlikely similarity lies in the two leaders’ reaction to controversy...
...during the 2004 election that suggested Democrats would ban the Bible. He said that his former boss would have responded more aggressively to that charge. Begala broke out in a full-blown Clinton drawl and said that—if confronted by those charges—the famously plain-spoken president would have stood up, pointed to the Bible, and declared, “I need this book more than any of you in this room.” The charismatic Clinton might not be back for the ’08 election, but another Democratic candidate with the same...
...politically incorrect arguments of Jared Diamond in your remarks to a gathering of historians? Not in this University, you don’t.Eager to see that untouchably cool Af-Am professor who calls everyone “Brother” return to academic research from his long foray into spoken word albums and Al Sharpton presidential bids? You’d best not even mention it. You’re probably a racist if you do.Any offensive opinion, including those backed up by research, will be an albatross around your neck forever. If you must say anything?...