Word: towardness
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...better to use a photo on the back cover different from one of Ifill looking adoringly at Obama during an interview. Ifill has interviewed virtually every African-American politician of note, tracking a generational shift away from leaders like Jesse Jackson who were schooled in the civil rights movement toward Ivy Leaguers like Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. And while scoundrels like Detroit's disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick are almost absent, there's much here to justify her assertion that "the bench is deep" with rising political stars--and her role as their enthusiastic chronicler...
...premise of The Well-Dressed Ape is that everybody knows human beings are really animals but nobody cops to it linguistically. Just talking about ourselves the way we talk about animals is a step toward self-knowledge. "We Homo sapiens," Holmes writes, "so eager to describe the rest of the world, have been chary about committing our own species to paper." Holmes describes us quite wonderfully, and she's a tireless compiler of biological trivia. She scours the extremes of the earth for anomalous and specially adapted humans, like the Tierra del Fuegians, who (before they died out) wore...
...room hut, adjacent to the tent restaurant we were eating in and showed us his schoolbooks. Then he asked us if we wouldn’t buy him a football so he could play like the other kids.He followed us to the bookstores we were heading towards clearly seeking a commission should we buy anything, and he tried to kick a young girl who attempted to beg from us while we were under his sway, his juicy catch. The kid had launched on the path of the tout, and to encourage him could only in the long run lead...
...packed. Though we’ve come here with the wildly different frames of reference you’d expect from such an assortment, and even when my left is someone else’s right we have a lot to say to each other these days.The prevailing attitude toward the United States has ridden the familiar roller coaster over the course of the semester, with more scowls when the economy took a dive and more chummy pats on the back when Obama turned the country blue. A man in Morocco even did me the courtesy of reciting the first...
...worse than actually writing a final paper is stressing out over what to write about. With this list of ready-made paper topics, FM has taken all the stress out of the process. Start with any one of these suggestions, and you’re already on your way toward...