Word: scholasticism
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The collapse of Goosebumps entails a very adult horror story. Those novels were packaged by Parachute Press, a firm started in 1983 by Stine's wife Jane and a partner, and published by Scholastic. As sales and royalties zoomed past everyone's expectations, squabbles erupted over the division of the...
--the Cult of Anti-Intellectualism, which holds that scholastic excellence is a white thing.
For a generous $17 an hour, I participate in what is essentially a numbers racket, an enterprise that boasts enough coded charts, spreadsheets and Scantron forms to lure Ace Rothenstein (DeNiro's Casino character) out of retirement/hiding. But the bottom line is this: For about $1,000, my employer guarantees...
"To guard a title that was rich before/To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and...
"To guard a title that was rich before/ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers...