Thus speaks the stern, scholarly voice of Fred Halliday, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, as he dismisses attempts to fit the international relations of the Middle East into easy, fashionable theories.
Earlier that season, he slapped a fan already restrained by four stewards, and, though he has since revealed a softer side, represented a scholarly voice when it came to the identification of a bad lot.
The writer's voice echoes these heterotopic tensions; the presence of the subjective voice struggles with the vividness of a 'prosthetic' attachment to the events of 9/11 and the scholarly voice struggles to attain a critical distance from the event.
"It's a balance between personal and scholarly voices," said Erin Coburn, the chief officer of digital media at the Met.
In an emotionally charged atmosphere in which fear of reprisal has silenced many scholarly voices, here are some "cruel" points to consider before ballots are cast.
He has culled a selection of diverse scholarly voices to fill out the volume's other essays that establish Remaking California as an invaluable book for anyone seeking to better understand the state's deep political troubles and possibly to begin organizing to alleviate them.
It's a complex book written in a scholarly but grandiose voice, chock full o' philosophical and religious themes, plus lots of references to gender (despite being the daughter of feminist theorist Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley sometimes seems to depict women as weak and evil -- blargh).
On the evening of 17 May, Midtown's famous main branch of the New York Public Library will transform from a sanctuary of hushed voices and scholarly intent to one of refined hedonism as more than 3,000 black tie-attired revellers fill every nook and cranny of the massive library and sample an unlimited assortment of cocktails created for the evening.
For the rest, whether it's Victorian London or post-sixties New York, pop novels and scholarly urbanism are most often voiced in a tone of complaint or querulous warning.
The Juilliards emphasize contrapuntal complexity and inner voices, not from mere scholarly fastidiousness but in quest of the full range and depth of musical experience, substance, and emotion.
All around the country, women were reading not just Freidan's book, but the works of a passionately engaged army of women writers, whose wildly divergent voices -- from the scholarly ferocity of Robin Morgan, to the righteous anger of Andrea Dworkin, to the soulful artistry of Alice Walker -- would become the vibrant soundtrack of the era.
