Yeah,Watergate. Not even gonna attempt a summary, except to say to those readers too young to remember it, that I never thought I’d miss having a president whogoes on national television to defend himselfthusly
“The purpose of paper is to encourage slow reactions. You write it and set it aside, in case just writing it is enough; if you want to send it, then you rewrite it as needed until all venom is out; then you snail-mail it so she can’t hit “reply” and react. Etc. Cooler he...
the market can spin out of control—and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity;on our ...
The question that I use when a student says something that I don’t directly see the connection to what we are doing is, “What makes you say that?” Listen, listen carefully because you might learn something insightful or see things from a new and different perspective! I want to ...
“I was not so much interested in ___ itself as I was to describe how a young monk would experience ___ through his cultural sensibility. So I made a collage of at least fifty different texts of mystics describing their ecstasies, together with excerpts from the Song of Songs. In the...
Some poems inThe Lowlands of Moynemove away from the farm district. ‘Lajamanu’, ‘Ampilatwatja’ and ‘Home’ go to remote communities in the Northern Territory. ‘The things they carry’, ‘Coconut workers’ and ‘Brick kiln workers’ go to south-east Asia. There are elegies for friends...
“workers state” to refer to the post-revolutionary condition of a given nation, where the working class, through the revolutionary party, has taken state power, and has to face the tasks of reaching out to the working class of other nations, defend against any counter-revolutionary forces, ...
” She also presented “a list of nearly one hundred prominent women of all communities who have expressed a desire to associate themselves with this ceremonial” and stressed that there are hundreds and hundreds of women who want to contribute to the function of the government of the newly ...
Alan Jacobs plansto “repair something every day, even if it’s something insignificant, and even if the repair is just a bit of cleaning. I want each night to be able to say:Today, instead of acquiring something new, I took something already known to me and made it a little better....
We, as grand-children, no matter which part of the world we are from, were most likely born into a "Bauhaus-world." We are its "heirs," whether we want it or not. We can therefore neither neglect the positive achievements that the outpourings of this school 1 Derrida, J. 2006...