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...always been popular, but in recent years it has achieved an almost cultlike status at the school. Though a vivid lecturer and the co-author of what was for years the country's top-selling astronomy textbook, Thompson has traded the chalk-and-talk approach for a task-oriented mode of teaching, using Voyager. His students do not ``study'' astronomy; they become astronomers. From September through June, they complete a series of tasks, using computer-based tools like the ones astronomers use. Each task builds on the ones before it, so calculations made in October may provide an essential tool...
...From which country?'' I ask. This is like offering lox to a dog: I've given Joe the chance to enlighten his feckless bro. He hammers back half a flute of Dom Perignon and shifts into full-on Pitch Mode...
Almost always, male to female cross-dressers, those in it for the long term as well as collegiate dabblers, choose the mode of exaggerated femininity, with a focus on exaggerated female movements--the mincing walk, generous cleavage, the flaming lips (no subtle Prescriptives regimen here), the coquettish, come-hither glances (my God, do women still give come-hither glances?)--and a seemingly inescapable attraction to low-rent apparel from Victoria's Secret and Frederick's of Hollywood, clothing choices which reveal more than mere body parts...
There is evidence, not cited in An Intimate History, that Zeldin may be onto something. Consider that new font of chatter known as E-mail. Here is a mode of talk that is raunchy as well as revelatory, clubby as well as all enveloping. Friendships as well as enmities between strangers are born on, and borne, by wire connecting one continent to another. Is the Internet the ultimate salon...
...formed a well-reasoned opinion of it. In fact, I suspect that they did so, and certainly there are many reasons to reject the book's claims--several eloquently stated by the second speaker of the evening, Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould. What concerns me about their mode of expression is how antithetical it is to the manner of seeking truth agreed upon at Harvard, thoughtful debate in the marketplace of ideas (not symbols...