Potemkin village \puh-TEM(P)-kin\, noun:
An impressive facade or display that hides an undesirable fact or state; a false front.
"A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century."
Link. My goal for the second half of today's class is to slide this phrase into the discussion of Carol Gilligan.
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Did you manage to do it?
And re: Trueblood: so you've read _The People Called Quakers_. Big deal; if anyone has read anything by DET, that's the one. And it probably wasn't assigned for a course, was it (that was my point in the haiku; no one seems to assign his books anymore).
Nope, so I'm hopeful for today.
True, not assigned for a class- I just found it at the used bookstore. The thing about tongues made me so mad, though, that he's not high on my list of people I want to continue reading.
I think you should use the phrase "Potemkin village " when speaking about the upcoming gathering, as in, "Let's show some Quaker unity!"
Ow! Cynical, much?
And yet, not as bad as what I wanted to post.
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