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Sarah Churchwell
American
Educator
Born:
1970
Distraction
History
People
Racism
Sense
Who
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Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
Sarah Churchwell
Too
Given
More
Longer
Schoolchildren
Textbooks
Expensive
Them
Teachers
Who
Need
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.
Sarah Churchwell
Failure
Pressure
Degree
Increasingly
Enter
Purchased
Degrees
Perceive
Students
Fees
Calculations
Commodity
Anyone
Mean
Who
Universities
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.
Sarah Churchwell
History
Waiting
People
Sense
Guest
Those
Takes
Invited
Been
List
Us
Resembles
Whom
Whose
Presence
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
Sarah Churchwell
History
Mistakes
Solid
Prone
Facts
Identity
Always
Things
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.
Sarah Churchwell
Racism
Will
Sense
Distracted
Distraction
Obama
Point
Clearer
Continue
Race
Dismiss
Working-Class
Resentment
Spectre
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.
Sarah Churchwell
Legal
People
Political
Poverty
Group
Systematic
Distraction
Entire
Something
Economic
Could
Making
Permanently
Making Up
Link
Up
Legacy
Effort
Sustained
Which
Race
Serve
Slavery
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power.
Sarah Churchwell
Discipline
Power
Extraordinary
About
Rate
Only
Had
He
Likelihood
Course
Tiger
Tiger Woods
His
Source
Any
The Only Thing
Woods
Golf
Coordination
Thing
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Sarah Churchwell
Music
Frustration
Confused
Envy
Rage
Lust
Channeling
Lyrics
Outlet
Passions
Itself
Just
Energies
Them
Creating
Expresses
'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.
Sarah Churchwell
Enough
Those
Kids
Spoilt
Underprivileged
Educational
Pioneering
Get
Intended
Children
Us
Choice
Show
Help
Even
Street
Sesame
Sesame Street
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