CONTRACTION'S WISE MAN -- The uproar over Major League Baseball's plan to lop off Montreal and Minnesota led to a House Judiciary Committee hearing in which many of the panelists showed a startling lack of understanding of the issue.
It shows a startling lack of understanding about the role these classes play and what they represent.
It's not that Fresh Meat is a bad show – the cast are mostly fantastic and the gags are solid – it's just startling how its understanding of the student experience has become so out of touch.
More so than ever are young people understanding the startling inequalities we've inherited from the previous generation and more so than ever are we doing things to put them right.
Talk story about Dr. Marshall McLuhan, a professor of English at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, author of three startling books, the most recent "understanding Media".
The New Yorker, May 15 , 1965P. 43 Talk story about Dr. Marshall McLuhan, a professor of English at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, author of three startling books, the most recent "understanding Media".
By Lillian Ross The New Yorker, May 15 , 1965P. 43 Talk story about Dr. Marshall McLuhan, a professor of English at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, author of three startling books, the most recent "understanding Media".
The seaside village had been chosen for its vertiginous streetscape ("blind people above all hate flatness, they have no way of understanding it"), its startling white buildings and the sharp contrasts of light and shade that Mann could still just about decipher.
As a young academic with aspirations to playwriting, I remember being dazzled by its faultless convergence of argument and character, its startling structural techniques, its bold understanding of what little needs to be written to conjure a world, its erotic landscape, its casual wit and a last line, heartstoppingly ironic, which has stayed in my head for 20 years.
While there is much general agreement occasional startling differences are also observed, which may have a bearing on the mechanism of normal fat absorption and on the understanding of the transport of the fat-soluble toxins across the mucosal villus cell.
