Word: topicalism
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...wasn’t a surprise, in truth. In the end, it’s what the NCAA had expected when it seeded the field; what fans, reluctantly, knew would probably occur. And here in the upstairs of the Beren Tennis Center, the topic of the post-game interview revolved around the questions most reporters absolutely hate to ask, in any form. As best we could, Pat and I probed—gently—hoping for a few nice, reflective quotes about the definitive end to a very good collegiate season. Really, though, we were hoping for insight into...
That feat is even more impressive considering his favorite topics of late. First, there is his home state of Michigan, to which his 2003 album Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State is a tribute (he has a plan to do the other 49 too, and will continue with Illinois—“I’ve been reading a lot about Lincoln, poetry by Carl Sandberg, doing research,” he says). And then there’s his other favorite topic: his Father...
...storm that brewed in response to my column, I spoke about the debacle with friends. One question continually surfaced: What did I expect, anyway? I knew I was writing about a touchy topic, so didn’t I expect a touchy reaction? Well, sure. But I was happier believing in the fantasy of process over product...
Breyer, considered one of the court’s liberal justices, spoke as the future composition of the nation’s top tribunal has become a major topic of political discussion. Under the lights of a packed Lowell Lecture Hall, he explained how his concept of active liberty relates to the way he decides cases about freedom of speech, federalism and privacy...
Nemerov mentioned after his talk that he stumbled upon such a fascinating piece almost by accident, and that it had never attracted scholarly attention before. He spoke of how liberating it was not to be encumbered by previous literature on the topic. Less of his energy was spent shattering old myths, and more on synthesizing novel pieces of information and discovering through a sharpened focus “relations, connections, affinities within a culture that it may not even...