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  • Armstrong simply bleats about the "hopelessness" that drives people to suicide bombing, and I can't really understand a word Spivak is saying.

    Daimnation!: The Three Stooges 2003

  • Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder.

    A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary 2010

  • Here, "Spivak" depicts several individuals standing near an elevator.

    Red September: Art In Russia 2008

  • So obviously you will want everything with "Spivak" and "subaltern", but maybe you also want things that touch on

    Ask MetaFilter Herkimer 2009

  • Wisconsin's battle suggests voters are more inclined to try to remove officials, said Joshua Spivak, a senior fellow at the Hugh L.

    Republicans fend off Dem challenge to tough anti-union rules 2011

  • Wisconsin's battle suggests voters are more inclined to try to remove officials, said Joshua Spivak, a senior fellow at the Hugh L.

    Republicans fend off Dem challenge to tough anti-union rules 2011

  • That Spivak Calculus book in the picture is fantastic. johnw Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Open Source Textbooks 2009

  • He succeeded Lawrence Spivak as Meet the Press host in 1975, becoming the show's fourth moderator.

    Meet the Press Host Bill Monroe Dies at 90 2011

  • When Gayatri Spivak concluded that the subaltern has no voice because even voice has been appropriated beforehand by the oppressor, and "liberation" merely reinscribes that voice in new ways, it is hard to see where this leads concretely but to a denial of agency on the part of the oppressed.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • WAYNE: The author of Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, who was heavily criticized by Gayatri Spivak, among others, for her ethnocentric feminist theory!

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

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