Word: zeitgeist
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...qualified to pass on their vast knowledge to students, in perspicacious lectures, well-structured seminars, and carefully-selected reading lists. Such lights of the Academy ought to be entrusted with deciding what students should read and what they should learn. If not they, then who?According to the zeitgeist of the Faculty and of this venerable page, the answer is most obvious: the students themselves.The new “Q” regulations require professors to offer course evaluations to their students, but for what reason students ought to stand in judgment of their intellectual superiors on matters academic...
...mothers and bitches. In Cashmere, publisher Mia (Lucy Liu) is asked to sign off on a men's-magazine cover, for a story about predatory businesswomen, with a terrified man on a dinner plate and a pair of nail-polished hands about to dig in. "It's the Zeitgeist," a male editor tells her. "Female execs are taking over. Movie studios, Silicon Valley, maybe our next President--God help...
...Google zeitgeist...
...there were some simple, reliable resource that could accurately determine with absolute certitude which schools are worth applying to, and which aren’t.Enter U.S. News and World Report’s College Rankings, the magazine’s cash cow. U.S. News has perfectly capitalized on the zeitgeist of today’s hyper-involved parents and their overachieving children, milking every cent from their anxiety. The idea is so powerful that the magazine has started rankings for pretty darn near everything that can be ranked—from hospitals to high schools. With respect to college rankings...
...Right, exactly. Speed is the new change. Speed is this zeitgeist of our time; everybody knows they have to change by design. They have to be ahead of that curve. They have to be taking the computer courses on the job so that if they lose their job or they move on to another responsibility, they're set. Speed now is that new thing, and we're right in the throes of understanding that this is something to be harnessed, to embrace, not cope with...