Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mallon says every English teacher harbors a desire to write creatively, perhaps because they are closer to their critical subject than other scholars, since they are writing about other people's writing...
Although Dudley serves a similar number of students as the other houses--about 400--it has had to fight against ignorance and prejudice from students and administrators alike, says Arthur Loeb. "Dudley in its uniqueness has had the problems of being out of the mainstream and subject to prejudices about being out of the mainstream," says Loeb," That's a vicious cycle...
...come by, what luck is required in the quest, and how rarely artists themselves confront their difficulties in an engaging spirit. The whine of self-pity, the bombast of self-aggrandizement, the low moan of tragedy are the notes most often heard from the creator on the subject of his life...
Movies, of course, have always been the most ludicrous offenders in this regard. They so often turn the stealth and cunning by which most artists survive into confrontational melodrama. How marvelous to find a film that comes at this subject from the right direction -- obliquely, metaphorically -- and in the proper mood of delicate and gallant irony...
...incident was the latest squall in an increasingly stormy relationship between London and Dublin. Like the weather over the Irish Sea, ties between the two countries can be subject to abrupt changes. The sun came out in 1985, when the Anglo-Irish accord was signed, in which Britain granted Ireland a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. Since then a series of controversial British decisions has drawn complaints from Ireland...