It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptions... empirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For good teaching rests neither in accumulating a shelfful of knowledge nor in developing a repertoire of skills. In the end, good... teaching lies in a willingness to attend and care for what happens in our students, ourselves, and the space between us. Good teaching is a certain kind of stance, I think. It is a stance of receptivity, of attunement, of listening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intell...ectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibil...ity about sex roles and the importance of male domination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... she learned survival depends on complete distrust. Even today she is still... fierce in her refusal to rely on others. Some would call it alienation. Others pride. I think it's only the necessary stance of any survivor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Van gripped with spl...ayed hands the brow of gravity, and moved to and fro, veering and sidestepping, opening his mouth the wrong way, and blinking in the odd bilboquet fashion peculiar to eyelids in his abnormal position. Even more extraordinary than the variety and velocity of the movements he made in imitation of animal hind legs was the effortlessness of his stance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In football, on each play eleven men act in unison, and in each action not the individual but the corporate unit acts. When Bart S...tarr completed a pass for the Green Bay Packers, all the Packers could be said to share the deed; one man alone is quite helpless. When Joe Di--aggio stepped to the plate in Yankee Stadium with his unforgettable stance and fluid swing, Di--aggio stood in spotlighted solitude, and none of his teammates could act in his behalf. Football is corporate, baseball an association of individuals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of t...he seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The price on the wanted poster was a-going down, outlaw alias copped my stance... and moody greenhorns were making me dance; while my mouth's shooting iron got its chambers jammed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me the free and poor inheritance Of our own kind, not furniture... Of education, or the prophet's pose, The general cause of words, the hero's stance, The ambitions incommensurable with flesh,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »