Example sentences for: cornel

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  • The talent is name-brand--among the stars scheduled to shine there briefly at some point in the future are Harvard theologian Cornel West, Harvard philosopher Anthony Appiah, Parisian semiotician Julia Kristeva, feminist psychoanalytic critic Juliet Mitchell, and even, interestingly, that elegist of public intellectualism lost, Russell Jacoby, author of The Last Intellectuals --but all of them are of a political inclination (leftish) that has been losing the culture wars on campus of late.

  • Keeping the integrationist faith are black liberals like Professors Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West . Joining them is black economist Glenn Loury , a conservative who broke ranks to endorse affirmative action as a necessary policy.

  • The just-published Cornel West Reader is dedicated to John Coltrane, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Tennessee Williams, Giacomo Leopardi, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Vaughn, Muriel Rukeyser, Thomas Hardy, Nikos Kazantzakis, Toni Morrison, "and above all," Anton Chekhov.

  • Like you, I wish Gates and Cornel West would take sabbaticals and embark on the kind of lasting work they're both capable of.

  • Kudos to Jacob Weisberg for reading Cornel West on his own instead of relying on Leon Wieseltier's version.


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