Word: topicalism
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...would seem from just glancing that immense composite list, little time to dwell on the historical particulars and hardships of tracking down footage for a documentary. Yet, in his portrait of Jean Dominique, a Haitian activist unknown to most American ears, Demme takes aim at a slightly obscure topic and turns up a final product that not only serves as a fascinating narrative biography but an excellent debriefing of Haiti’s turbulent political history...
...said Margot E. Kaminski ’04, who took Stauffer’s seminar on American historical fiction and a sophomore History and Literature tutorial he co-taught. “He’s been able to recommend a minimum of 10 books for whatever topic I come to him about...
...lawyer blamed the insurer, the insurer blamed the lawyer, and the doctor blamed them both at a panel discussion last night in Emerson Hall on the topic of medical malpractice and tort reform...
...Despite my enthusiasm for the concept of thesis-writing (and the concept of six months of academically-sanctioned self-involvement is very appealing), the process of choosing a thesis topic has proven more difficult than I had anticipated. No one topic seems very appealing for more than five minutes. Dreiser, for instance, is all too easily dismissed by Dorothy Parker’s acidly apt couplet, “Theodore Dreiser/ Should ought to write nicer.” And is affection for a cleverly-named sledgehammer really sufficient basis for a months-long project? Catholic (in the sense...
...growth and job creation by cutting taxes and employee payroll charges and tightening pension schemes have done little more than further bloat France's budget deficit well beyond the 3% of gdp limit imposed by euro membership. Even the effectiveness of earlier attempts to attack unemployment remains a hot topic. Earlier this month conservative parliamentarians issued a scathing report denouncing the nation's 35-hour workweek, introduced in 2000 by the Socialist government and designed in part to encourage hiring. The study countered contentions that the scheme had created 350,000 jobs and new tax revenues with claims...