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The Vertical Hour: curriculum theory as theater.(Critical essay)
David Hare's (2006) Broadway play, The Vertical Hour turns on this:
In combat medicine, there's this moment ... after a disaster, after a shooting--there's this moment, the vertical hour, when you can actually be of some use. (qtd., David Finkle, 2006)
The play is astonishing in complexity. Interestingly enough, the first scene opens with Julianne Moore (playing Nadia Blye) as a professor at Yale discussing with one of her students his poorly written paper. We all know how uncomfortable that can be! But is it? She complains that the student's paper is driven by emotion, not reason. The paper sounds as if it is about the writer, not about the ...
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