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Steven Lesser has shared a great comment regarding MCHS dress codes (and a second great comment about a favourite song)
/9 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillUpdate We have a great discussion (please see comments below, and the photo – which you can enlarge if you click on it – at the very top of the page you are now reading) about the Banning of the Twist at MCHS in the early 1960s. The yearbook photo at the top of this […]
Graeme Decarie has shared a recent photo of himself. We also discuss the crop tops topic.
/4 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’m currently catching up on still photo and video projects, related to the MCHS 2015 Reunion. One of the projects concerns a recent photo of Graeme Decarie, and a photo from the MCHS 1962-63 yearbook that I had spoken about with Graeme some time ago. I will include the photo from the yearbook in a […]
“Why I Left The CBC And Its Toxic Atmosphere” – Linden MacIntyre, Oct. 22, 2014 Huffington Post
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillYou can access an Oct. 22, 2014 Huffington Post article, entitled “Why I Left The CBC And Its Toxic Atmosphere,” by Linden MacIntyre here. It’s a long article and warrants a close read. “Normal” obnoxiousness that proceeds along the abuse continuum An excerpt reads: “The harder part is coming to terms with the individual and institutional blindness […]
Without positing a simple-minded connection, Not Hollywood (2013) argues that taste is linked to a particular class background
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI have previously posted several items about Not Hollywood (2013). This post discusses these and other posts. Toronto Public Library resources I came across Sherry B. Ortner’s work when I was reading The Hidden Life of Girls (2006), a linguistic anthropology study of cliques of popular girls in American schools. The author of the latter […]
Producers are energetic people who are really good at getting people to say yes, Sherry B. Ortner notes
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’m really pleased that I learned about Sherry B. Ortner as a result of reading a reference to her work in Marjorie Harness Goodwin’s study, The Hidden Life of Girls (2006). Among Ortner’s books is New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58 (2005). Because it’s one of the few books, that I’m […]
The research defies what we’ve been told: How We Learn (2014) and The Handbook of Language Socialization (2014)
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillI’ve recently had the opportunity to encounter many resources that address how we absorb information. Among the resources is a book entitled How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens (2014). A blurb at the Toronto Public Library website notes: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) “In the tradition of The […]