October 18, 2002
40 Years Before the Class
It seemed like a good idea at the time: My students would each write a two-page description of a classmate, then read their papers aloud. Each was to provide a sealed envelope containing the name of the person he or she was writing about -- our version of the Academy Awards -- so we could see if the descriptions were concrete and detailed enough for us to guess the right person. It didn't turn out the way I'd expected.
Nearly all the men wrote about the same woman, a perfectly nice,
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