Word: explainers
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Want to concentrate in history and literature, social studies or some combination thereof? Better be prepared to explain yourself in a written statement. Want to have a job/internship/life when you graduate? Better get those resums in tip-top shape and have your bags packed to fly hither and yonder. Want to be a prefect, a Crimson Keyer, a Seneca member? Switch Houses? Throw a party? Ladies and gentlemen, please have your pens at the ready...
...friends has become a sort running joke because she just can't help herself--you name it, she's applied. My roommate sent her, as a joke, an "application" to one of our parties this year. Essay question number two: "We relish the exclusion of less worthy individuals. Please explain why we should forfeit the small portion of joy we would obtain in excluding you from our festivities...
Ganji gleefully cast such literary devices aside, however, when former President Rafsanjani joined the race for parliament earlier this year. Intent on bringing the powerful Rafsanjani "down to earth," he embarked on a searing interrogation in his newspaper columns, demanding that the candidate explain what he knew about the killings as well as why the eight-year war with Iraq, which killed more than 300,000 Iranians, was "unnecessarily" prolonged. Rafsanjani suffered a humiliation at the polls: in last week's results, he ran 30th in the race for 30 Tehran seats, jeopardizing his bid to become the next speaker...
...think parents should encourage children of all ages to attend funerals and other death rituals, but should not force them. Explain what the child can expect to see, what he should do and how others might act. My young friend Martha, her siblings and her young cousins were encouraged to attend the funerals of their grandmothers, and those kids who declined were given other options, such as visiting the grave site or church after the services were over. Martha's family also worked together to create "memory boxes" as a way to memorialize their grandmothers, with each child contributing stories...
...dichotomy unique to Jonsons career. While Jonson was just beginning his literary work, Sir Philip Sidney attacked contemporary drama in his Defense of Poesy for (among other things) undermining theseriousness of literature. Even today, there are still strong echoes ofthis work-play opposition. A friend recently tried to explain to me why there are relatively few modern productions of Luigi Pirandello's plays despite his highstature in the literary world. Pirandello wrote academic exercises more than he wrote plays, she told me, and so they're very hard to put on. My friend's language alone conveys the split between...