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...FALL INTO THIS TRAP of trying to please my graders every time I write a paper. Here's an example from a paper I wrote on Tess of the d'Urbervilles for my sophomore English tutorial...
...narrator breaks the omniscient system to protect Tess from direct involvement in sins for which the reader will immediately condemn her in an absolute moral sense...
...last week, informal polls often turned up the same split: secretaries sided with Thomas while their male and female bosses took Hill's side. When J.C. Alvarez came forward as a witness for the judge and described Hill as aloof and ambitious, she played a real-life version of Tess, the secretary pitted against a Wall Street shrew in the movie Working Girl. Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for George Bush, calls it a division "between clever people who talk loudly in restaurants and those who seat them." However they are described, the two groups are separated by privilege. "Both...
...originally planned as a supplement to The Lighthouse, the other women's publication started this term, according to Tess J. Schwarz '91, a coordinator of The Lighthouse. But The Rag decided to publish on its own in order to concentrate chiefly on feminist issues, Schwarz said...
Take last Monday night's prime-time schedule. Murphy Brown and Capital News depict journalistic superstars strutting down the corridors of power in Washington. Working Girl is climbing her way into the upper echelons of New York corporate life; next maybe Tess will be dating Donald Trump. In Atlanta the Designing Women are even less likely than Scarlett O'Hara ever to be hungry again. Newhart is living the yuppie fantasy of owning a Vermont country inn. Even the downwardly mobile Philadelphia lawyer of Shannon's Deal can still manage to take a first date out for a $172 restaurant...