Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last semester, we asked for your short short stories, and lo and behold we received. A few Okay, okay--so the number of entries in our short short story contest may not have been as large as we anticipated. As the following tales prove, though, it's not the size...
Thus, in the middle of the semester--as the skipped readings and the missed lectures begin to accumulate--we delude ourselves with fairly tales...
Or one could make Celtic an emphasis within the Folklore and Mythology department. I'd certainly heard of that one. I always get a good chuckle. I imagined that "Folk'n Myth" concentrators must be given a special seminar on how to break the news to their parents. "We're...
Well, I should confess my concentration: philosophy. But my field has undeniable legitimacy simply because it's so old and forbidding. Anyone can read fairy tales. Even little children. Especially little children! Sure, Socrates did tell the Myth of Er in Plato's Republic, but I like to think he...
But some of the Republican arguments have been misleading as well. The charge of elitism, for example, is exaggerated. A 1994 Nielsen study revealed that 56.5% of PBS-viewing households have incomes below $40,000, not much less than the national average of 59.9%. "Elitism" is really a code word...