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Suddenly everything crystallized. What his speech told us was that Tocsin's politics of amiable persuasion were not enough. The effort of changing their minds by proving how well-read we were was valiant but fruitless. I resigned as chair of Tocsin soon thereafter. I knew that I had to do something else, though I didn't quite know what...
Bennett's stress on the teaching of traditional morals, paired with his dismissal of minority cultures, would result in a generation of well-read racists with no knowledge of the world outside the West. Bennett would do far better for himself and for the nation's students by supporting new, cross-cultural approaches to education rather than trying to limit the free exchange of ideas...
...ubiquity. Janowitz has appeared in magazine advertisements for Amaretto and Rose's Lime Juice. Her face pops up with increasing frequency in newspapers and magazines, and she has given the MTV generation its first performance-writer by making videotapes to plug Slaves as well as Cannibal. The latter is the story of a well-read tribal chief who becomes the toast of the asphalt jungle and accidentally eats his wife at a barbecue. Janowitz has a catchy style and achieves her satiric effects with a sly Valley Girl delivery. Slaves cartoons the downtown-Manhattan art scene, where Janowitz, like...
Blumenthal recalls a project that melanie wrote for his class during her freshman year. "Melanie wrote this truly astonishing thing in three parts. The first section was called `Thoughts on Love,' the second was `Thoughts on God' and the third was `Thoughts on Self.' It was astonishing how well-read she was in different areas and how well she was able to assimilate all of the information," he remembers...
...someone unfamiliar with the detailed story of the Constitution's birth, no book better combines the virtues of logical organization, responsible brevity and pleasant reading than A More Perfect Union. Though neither constitutional scholars nor well-read dilettantes are likely to discover previously hidden treasures here, they will find a uniquely clear guide that keeps an orderly hand on the chronology of the convention, as well as on the evolving roles of the principal actors...