Word: untraditionalã
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...First and foremost, the political leanings of professors are poor litmus tests for their intellect, pedagogical aptitude, or enthusiasm for teaching—all of which are more important considerations in the hiring of professors and the development of young minds. Secondly, the idea that liberal—or untraditional??scholarship is undesirable is one fundamentally opposed to the ideal of academia, which has proven most influential when it has pressed conventional knowledge to its limits and challenged traditional ways of thinking. It is perhaps true is that the trend of academic scholarship today lends itself to progressive...
...addition to changes in the dramatic aspects of the show, set designer Margaret D. Maloney ’06 has taken liberties with the scenery to emphasize the G&S Players’ “traditionally untraditional?? theme. Citing N.C. Wyeth’s drawings for the book Treasure Island as inspiration, Moloney said, “I wanted to avoid the standard staging for Pirates, but at the same time remain true to the play and its style. Most productions of Pirates have only the barest mention of a pirate ship, usually painted on a backdrop...
...running back and forth between my third-floor room in Currier and the courtyard along Garden Street with a pencil, a compass and a screwdriver. My suitemate, Charles, screamed down instructions as I wrestled our satellite dish into place, adjusted it to compensate for the somewhat ‘untraditional?? orientation of Currier House with respect to the cardinal directions and fastened it to the mortar of the courtyard’s retaining wall with some ad-hoc combination of wood chips, nails and twist-e-ties. Incidentally, due to some quirk of 1970s architecture, Currier House carries...
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