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...major canvases of Woodson’s critique was the American education system. In one of his most influential pieces, The Miseducation of the Negro, he writes that it was not structured in a manner complimentary to the social condition of African-Americans. From the high-class educational institutions to the burgeoning “Negro” schools, the “Negro” was a nonentity. Thus, students, black and white, were “educated” to view blacks as inferior because they were not worth consideration in all the realms of their academic experience...
When Four Seasons asked George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg to design a hotel, the Toronto-based architects confessed they had never worked on a luxury hotel. To their surprise, that's what the resort chain--which was reputed for high-class service but not necessarily high-class design--was looking for. "Going to most hotels is like going to Grandma's bedroom. It's fussy and old-fashioned. They wanted a modern approach," says Pushelberg. "It's all in the details and subtlety, so it can resonate with someone 65 years old but also with someone...
Once all of the guests are ushered into a back room of that pillar of high-class eating, the speaking portion of the evening is brief. “We let the wines do the talking,” says Harvest wine manager Stephan Sink. In truth, as the night wears on, the wine means that everyone else is doing the talking, downing glass after glass, blissfully oblivious to the fact that Edmunds and Sink are trying to address them...
...honey and milk. The accompanying snacks arrived on a three-tiered serving platter. Sipping our fragrant blends and nibbling on white chocolate cherry scone spread with delicious clotted cream, we could almost detect the slightest English lilt in our normal (American and Australian, respectively) speech patterns. The sandwiches were high-class variations on the traditional cucumber and watercress variety, and included carrot mousse on zucchini bread with curry butter, shrimp salad on scallion bread with chipotle-lime butter and sesame chicken on whole grain bread with watercress butter. The tea bread and scones were served with clotted cream as well...
...Murakami says, "In the West I am being criticized for being too commercial." Indeed, a recent review of Murakami's Serpentine show in the Guardian newspaper accused the artist of being little more than a huckster: "There's no sign of any internal critique, just a lot of very high-class production values ... not much art here, either?only a feeble sort of entertainment." Worried about his reputation as a serious artist in the West, Murakami rattles off a list of departures he is now taking to maintain his high-art cred. For starters, he says, he is exploring traditional...