Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When encountering reading which seem difficult to grasp, we give up and quickly place blame on the author for convoluted reasoning or poor writing, instead of redoubling our efforts to understand the argument or develop a more sophisticated critique. Rather than engage controversial authors, we are only too eager to brand them as racist, ignorant, sexist or enmeshed in the dominant culture--and we suffer because we ignore their insights...
Dogs love the familiar regardless of its truth or worth and hate the foreign without bothering to understand it. It seems that many of us undergraduates have been consumed by our doggish pursuit of the familiar and blissful ignorance or the foreign...
Sitting in the audience the other night, however, I truly enjoyed the experience. I began to understand that the `beauty' of the show lay in the talents exhibited on and off the stage, delivering a witty, entertaining and spectacular, albeit lewd, production...
Believe it or not, sitting there, I finally began to think about the Pudding as an art form, one well worth preserving. I understand that this in itself is a dangerous notion--that the glimmer and glitz of a production often overshadow the fact that, either consciously or not, it might perpetuate negative stereotypes. It is, as I said, one of the reasons why I've always felt a bit out of place at the Puddig. But this a cyclical debate, rooted in personal perceptions of art. It is a debate which will always haunt, or at least confuse, artists...
...will ever fully understand whether the traditional appeal of the Pudding show--its unique brand of humor--will either `benefit' from, or the `hurt' by, such an increase in complexity until the Pudding gives women the creative consideration they deserve. But if the it simply continues it discriminatory practices in the name of art, the Pudding will continue to totter on the high-heels of tradition, unable to stand up straight, smile and kick. Jesse Hawkes '99 is a history concentrator in Dudley House...