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...addition, the films on the syllabus were sometimes subject to change. Granted, those changes were often made to accommodate, say, a prerelease showing of Kill Bill, Vol. II or a Bill Murray flick to coincide with the actor’s surprise visit to the class...
Admittedly, there are hypothetical situations in which your feelings might be worth sharing. Occasionally, a TF might ask for some personal responses about the value of assigned readings to gauge whether or not they should be included in the syllabus next year. These are, in a sense, feelings rather than thoughts as you don’t actually know the effectiveness of the readings. But I feel like that’s just, like, your opinion...
...Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood should be on every college student’s personal syllabus. I devoured—cover to cover—it more quickly than one of my mother’s chocolate treats. And now I am passing it on to everyone I know...
...hard to review his work without at least a twinge of defensiveness. And perhaps Wiener is correct that The Crimson blew the Thernstrom controversy out of proportion, contributing to the politicization of what was in reality a civil disagreement between a teacher and his students over a course syllabus. One chapter later, however, Wiener gets his facts flat-out wrong when he launches an unwarranted attack on Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the Phillips professor of early American history at Harvard...
...subsequent career as an actress appeared on HBO’s “The Wire” and NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Streets”), told Wiener that she objected to Thernstrom’s syllabus, which included slaveowner’s journals but not slave narratives. Another African-American student, Paula Ford ’88, told Wiener that Thernstrom “said black men beat their wives...