Richard Conville
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Small talk (opens the original)
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I often reminded my students that there’s no such thing as small talk. All talk is big talk! Why? Because with our daily outpouring of talk, we create the social worlds we then inhabit. It’s sometime referred to as “the social construction of reality.” That social world we inhabit is largely a linguistic world. Although populated by people, people talk, and we float on a sea of words from day to day. Consider this. What if you recorded all your face-to-face conversations and all your media inter
America’s Pyrenees (opens the original)
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On February 3, 2025, I sent Sen. Roger Wicker, my senator, the senior senator from Mississippi, an urgent email. It read in part: “Sen. Wicker, PLEASE stand up to the President! Shutting down USAID invites China to move into the countries we will abandon. … Your silence hastens the end of America. PLEASE keep informed of what Trump is doing. And ACT!” Boy, was I mad. Since then, I have sent Sen. Wicker dozens of emails pleading with him, as chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to stand
Small things (opens the original)
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I recently discovered the work of the Polish poet Anna Kamienska. Her work titled “Small Things” runs 30 lines, but here is enough to suggest what she is up to. It usually starts taking shape From one word Reveals itself in one smile … It comes from laundry hung on a balcony From hands thrust into dough … It’s when you slice bread When you pour out some tea. By “small,” Kamienska means not big. For example, slicing the bread is a small action. But she also means ordinary, mundane, not grand. She
What patriotism is not (opens the original)
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The president has spread abroad a kind of patriotism that is foreign to this great nation. His actions have mimicked King George III of England, for whom patriotism was obedience. In the Declaration of Independence, we (mainly white males) claimed our freedom from being mere subjects of a king to being citizens of a nation. In that document, our Founding Fathers charged the king had “excited domestic insurrection among us” and “erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of office
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