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There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
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Sesame Street
Streets
Teach
Sesame
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Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.
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Challenges
Might
Mind
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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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Facts
Identity
Mistake
Prone
Solid
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
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Crude
Linked
Inextricably
Permits
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Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.
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Art
Order
Revelations
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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Entitlement
People
Proportion
Want
Rapidly
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
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Guests
Memories
Party
Blurred
Drunken
Fragmentary
Guest
List
Memory
Tendency
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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.
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Expensive
Textbooks
Teachers
Schoolchildren
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.
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Abolish
Disappear
Racism
Slavery
Way
Economic System
Effect
Neither
Upheld
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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.
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Invited
Waiting
Guest
List
Presence
Resembles
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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.
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Channeling
Confused
Envy
Frustration
Lust
Passion
Energies
Expresses
Outlet
Passions
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'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.
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Educational
Pioneering
Sesame Street
Spoilt
Underprivileged
Intended
Sesame
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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.
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Calculations
Commodity
Fees
Perceive
Degree
Increasingly
Purchased
Universities
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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.
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Coordination
Discipline
Extraordinary
Golf
Likelihood
Rate
Woods
The Only Thing
Tiger
Tiger Woods
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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.
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Racism
Resentment
Spectre
Working Class
Clearer
Dismiss
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Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
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Expression
Identity
Our Lives
Pop Music
Release
Self
Self Expression
Struggle
Adolescent
Questions
Articulate
Helps
Provides
Soundtrack
Struggling
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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.
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Legal
Distraction
Legacy
Making Up
Poverty
Slavery
Systematic
Link
Permanently
Sustained
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Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.
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America
Excellence
Fall
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