Sure, Tracie and I carry some grown-up baggage, the kind that makes us listen vigilantly to conversations between kindergarten buddies or see the ghost of an anti-gay campaign ad when our son asks to hear a story, but the kids move through the world like, well, kids, having curious conversations without judgment and asking for what they want without fear.
"Knowledge is not democratic," said Michèle Lamont, a Harvard sociologist who analyzes peer review in her 2009 book, "How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment".
In addition to being intellectually curious and having good judgment, he always struck me as a pragmatic rather than an ideological conservative.
However, at one point in the record of events included in the judgment a curious oblivion seems to have affected the judges with regard not only to facts which have long been known but also to important evidence given during the trial itself.
But Bay's movie, to me, feels more like a shifted version of "The Player," a sort of inside-Hollywood movie by someone who has been around long enough to see plenty of crashing and burning, of follies and even of crimes, and who, though not withholding judgment, remains curious and amazed.
She is the author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.
Curious impresarios can see that judgment triumphantly vindicated in the hourlong videotape of performance clips that is her electronic portfolio.
I tried not to listen when anyone talked about it, but I couldn't help being curious, too, against my better judgment: as if among the details there were information that I needed, for my own survival.
The jury will be asked to pass judgment on the curious arrangement in which Mr. Green's five current wives are all expected to pronounce their love and devotion to him as a husband and father of their combined 25 children, who live with Mr. Green and the women.
Now, I wouldn't want you to rush to judgment about this curious folk.
