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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 14, 2024, 08:28:54 pm ---Did you mean you didn't have a class on civics rather than physics?
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Oh, right -- good catch.
--- Quote ---In my junior high and high schools, "history" was "social studies."
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In my junior high, everything was social studies -- history, government, etc. In high school, it was the Social Studies Department, but individual classes broke that down further. For example, in high school I took an elective in Eastern Religions.
--- Quote ---I had one elective on folklore and one on mythology; both were under the English department.
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I may have mentioned this before, but my two sons went to two different high schools because we were midway between them. But neither of them had classes in creative writing! Writing a paper for history class was about as much creative writing as they got. I was appalled.
Jeff Wrangler:
I continue to be weeks behind. I am finding lots to read in the March 25 issue. I've already read Rachel Monroe, Margaret Talbot, and Adam Gopnik. I'm currently reading Paige Williams. I want to read Molly Fischer and David D. Kirkpatrick.
Given the current state of our country, I really think everyone should read Adam Gopnik (if for no other reason than, well, it's Adam Gopnik). I expect David D. Kirkpatrick will also be important.
Gopnik and Kirkpatrick are duty articles, but in this case I think they really are a duty.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 09, 2024, 10:30:55 am ---"Crazy-Making" by Leslie Jamison, about gaslighting, was fascinating in a creepy way.
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I just finished it. I found it very interesting. I understood the term only in the limited sense in which it is used in the movie--attempting to drive someone crazy--but thanks to the article I now see how the term applies to the behavior of The Great Orange Satan.
And I highly recommend the movie. I've watched it several times and will watch it again.
Fun fact: It's Angela Lansbury's screen debut. I think she was still a teenager. She plays a housemaid who's no better than she should be.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 17, 2024, 11:25:45 am ---I continue to be weeks behind. I am finding lots to read in the March 25 issue. I've already read Rachel Monroe, Margaret Talbot, and Adam Gopnik. I'm currently reading Paige Williams. I want to read Molly Fischer and David D. Kirkpatrick.
Given the current state of our country, I really think everyone should read Adam Gopnik (if for no other reason than, well, it's Adam Gopnik). I expect David D. Kirkpatrick will also be important.
Gopnik and Kirkpatrick are duty articles, but in this case I think they really are a duty.
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For some odd reason, I didn't read many of these articles. I've unburied this issue from the stack and will perform my duty. I only remember reading Jackson Arn's "The Showmanship of Gustav Klimt." After seeing his work at the Neue Gallery in NYC, I'm always up for reading about him.
Jeff Wrangler:
I'm catching up, but that's because I've become selective about what I'm reading. I quit in the middle of the article about the war in Ukraine; it was way too long.
On the other hand, Peter Hessler is always worth reading.
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