Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, in a course discussion on the educational policy aspects of affirmative action, a classmate of mine spoke of the subject in terms which were only too familiar. "As a Latina," she said, "I feel more comfortable seeking out a Latina faculty member as a role model...
...view of the subject that made me take notice, but rather the familiar construction of her comments: As an X, I feel Y. Too often in academic discussions, I've heard students preface their comments this way. As a woman, I feel that Aristotle was sexist. As a white male, I feel that Malcolm X was a dangerous thinker. As an immigrant, I feel that U.S. immigration laws are unjust. My identity as an X dictates that I feel...
...statements reveal much about a classmate's views of a particular problem but they do little to further academic dialogue and can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry. When students simply impose their favored narrow lens upon the subject instead of remarking insightfully about the shared text, they bring discussion to a halt. While lively and penetrating debates can be had about interpretation of the literature or theoretical arguments studied in class, it is nearly impossible to take issue with an X, Y statement, making them somewhat attractive to practitioners but unhelpful to anyone's intellectual growth...
Lewinsky: Yes, definitely. I was the one who brought it up, who broached the subject. I want everything back. It's my stuff...
...level in his work. "He's just got better and better," says director Eyre. "The more usual shape of the playwright's career is to have huge sunbursts of energy early on and then to rather simmer away." Hare admits, "I find myself with almost an abundance of subject matter." And he writes every day, no matter what. "It's heresy to say so, but the Beckett path--whereby you start out writing many words and you end up writing few--is, to me, deeply unattractive." Judging by recent events, there's little danger Hare will go down that unhappy...