Word: compatriots
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...investigators. In his plays chaos always ensues when violence is done to a leader, but Shakespeare also sensed the perils of unquestioning obedience. Says a soldier in Henry V: "If his cause be wrong, our obedience to the King wipes the crime of it out of us." But his compatriot is not so sure: "if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day, and cry all 'We died at such a place...
...Southernisms such as "Are ya'll goin' to the show?" must become "Are you guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying the bantering aren't so kind. As a Confederate compatriot of mine remarked during our freshmen week, "As soon as I started talkin' I felt funny. It was at the Union and every guy at the table started to stare at me. I wanted to talk to them, but they just wanted me to talk. They thought it was cute...
...board a train bound from Marrakech to Casablanca, a jaded American fashion model (Lindsay Wagner) meets up with a moody compatriot (Peter Fonda). She thinks he may be carrying a little grass to ease the boredom of the journey; he wants to be left alone to reflect on tribulations yet to come. "Where were you?" asks the model's travel companion (Estelle Parsons) when she returns to their compartment after being rebuffed by Fonda. "Out of my depth," the model replies...
...compatriot of Don Quixote, Picasso, too, possesses a Romantic belief unique among his contemporaries, in his case the notion that the creative spirit is supreme, that the man inside the artist's guise is most important. Regrettably, the MOMA's pedestrian predictability denies this aspect of Picasso's character. For all its wide scope, the show threatens to reinforce Picasso's statement that "museums are just a lot of lies...
Even the criterion on which to select a president was in question. Did Harvard need a man whom the faculties could embrace as a compatriot (many professors had sent letters critical of Pusey's inadequate credentials as a scholar)? Or did Harvard need a man who, though not a scholar, could be an administrator bringing external order and perspective to the ingrown tendencies of Harvard academia? Should Harvard choose a man on his ability to handle specific problems-curriculum reform, financial crises, dwindling faith in scholarship, even merger debates? Or should it choose a man who had little experience with...