Word: echo
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...continued to dispute Huckleberry Finn’s appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
What do they sound like? Well, Meloy’s songwriting does echo the sound of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, Belle & Sebastian, and Robyn Hitchcock, who affix pop sensibilities on intricate, narrative lyrics. But perhaps musical reference points aren’t the best way to describe what makes Meloy’s songs so indelible. More than anything else, Meloy is like a musical version of writer/publisher Dave Eggers and much of the McSweeney’s coterie, effortlessly blending wry tongue-in-cheek humor with genuinely-felt storytelling...
Economists, of course, are famously dismal in outlook, but these questions were also on the table at this month's meeting of G-7 finance ministers in London, and for some, they have a historical echo. The two Americans on TIME's panel, Jeffrey Sachs, the director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a former national economic adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now dean of the London Business School, see eerie similarities with economic conditions of almost 20 years ago. As Ronald Reagan began his second term in 1985, the dollar was sliding...
Those involved in the current debate about Summers’ leadership echo Tronto’s statement that the top-down governance model is of recent origin...
...should stand for a Harvard that rejects what is surely the most damaging kind of political correctness at work here—the untouchable orthodoxies of the administration and Corporation—the kind which silences voices that fail to echo their own. We should stand for a Harvard that welcomes academic inquiry from a Faculty far more representative of American society. We should stand for a Harvard that recognizes the benefits of faculty, students, staff, and, of course, women participating in its discourse and its decision-making...