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Neil L. Rudenstine is the textbook definition of a scholar--someone whose great interests lie in the intellectual achievements of the past, someone who has read everything, or knows why he has not. In contrast, friends say Summers has an omnivorous mind--but he may not have Rudenstine's deep human understanding or endless personal library. What he does have: an extensive background in the quantitative aspect of economics. That makes Summers the most scientifically-minded man to occupy Massachusetts Hall since Conant...
Collegiate softball players defy this convention, and this year's Crimson was a textbook example...
...even though the group had sent only 20 invitations. Sydnee was concerned because she had packed only 30 goody bags with T shirts, key chains and thermoses. Fortunately, everyone was understanding. The audience was half male, half female, including eight couples holding hands, one woman bearing an Erotic Poetics textbook and one who had a pint of Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby. The students were very supportive during the showing of Hell on Heels, cheering when Sydnee's name appeared onscreen. During a three-woman sex scene, Sydnee offered commentary: "Though I'm naturally a dominant, I can play...
...books have been translated into English. His title comes from an 18th century criers’ pitch for magic lanterns that implores, “Step into the school of the upside-down world!” And Upside Down does read a bit like a school textbook. It is a litany of declarative sentences such as, “Fear is the raw material that sustains the flourishing industries of private security and social control, and it’s in steady supply.” The problem is that the book’s readers are not elementary...
Though the book has its shortfalls, they are minimized if one reads it in textbook fashion, a section a week. Galeano’s catalogue of “plastic delights, plastic dreams,” will gradually build up and the world will indeed slowly begin to seem Upside Down...