Word: wilkinson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...difficulties fall on both sides, according to James Wilkinson, director of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. As Chan's story illustrate's, sometime's students are unwilling to give teachers from other nations a chance...
...Wilkinson stresses that the problems are not all the undergraduates' fault...
...bleeds, it leads" is the dictum of local television news. By now the public has grown numb to acts of savagery, and only a handful of journalists can still arouse feelings of shock or pity. New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson is one of them...
...contain impulses that more often than not overpowered him, and that no one seemed able to help him understand, then he is different from the rest of us only in the severity of his disorder, not in its content." That is the classic "we are all murderers" defense, and Wilkinson is wise not to push it. He is more effective when he takes a close look at Jackson's ex-wife Carolyn, the quintessential battered woman. Her husband was chronically brutal and unfaithful; for amusement he liked to sneak LSD into her food. Yet even now she proclaims her love...
...terror, vengeance, catharsis. After the garish denouement, reports the author, there was even a dramatic letdown. As one of the Wright City folk stated, "It was like there wasn't nothing ; important to do anymore." She was wrong. One significant task remained -- giving dimension to people and events -- and Wilkinson has seen...