Word: reader
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...really great thing with my parents: nothing was off limits in my house. My mother was a huge reader, and I was allowed to read anything I wanted. There was never a sense that something might be a little too scary...
...experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and other episodes of social and political conflict. Coles takes these experiences, along with a few musings on authors like Conrad and Emerson (which would probably fit very will within the curriculum of Gen. Ed. 105) and presents them as a sort of reader on the qualities of moral leadership-not just to lead, but to lead well...
...some ways Lives of Moral Leadership goes beyond the simplistic discussion its language might sometimes suggest. Reading about moral leadership can bring about a serious consideration of those ideas on the part of the reader. And perhaps this is the whole point. Coles wrote the book for a general audience, and it is safe to assume that he wanted it to inform and engage the larger American public in this ongoing discussion of moral leadership...
...complicated forms: the careful selection of descriptive passages in a novel, the precise cinematography of a well-made film. Both narrative and film can create a specific perspective from which their audiences can view a character gone insane. This perspective serves a dual purpose. First, it can allow the reader or viewer to more closely follow the inner development of a person in the throes of madness, a development that to an outside observer may simply appear a continuous and unchanging stream of irrational behavior. Second, it creates a type of dramatic development in the audience itself. Even...
...nation on the path to an unimaginably destructive war. Elsewhere, Stalin tightened his barbaric grip on the U.S.S.R., an expansionist Japan invaded China, and Spain plunged into prophetic civil war. Page by page (800 of them), this synoptic tour de force by a British historian propels the reader toward the inevitable cataclysms...