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...Maybe they need psychological counseling, like that baseball player John Rocker," mused the Kingfish. "He hasn't said anything crazier than the vile remark from state senator Arthur Ravenel, who called the N.A.A.C.P. the 'National Association of Retarded People' for opposing the flag. The next day he apologized to retarded people, but he hasn't told the N.A.A.C.P. he was sorry. Talk about STUPID...
Obviously, our sons can't all be Opie Taylors. Some are Arthur Fonzarellis, and a great many fall somewhere in between. William Pollack, author of the terrific book Real Boys, says the popularity study shows that "we still give a message that aggression and fighting work for boys." Parents who can't imagine their son's being a tough guy should be aware that a fourth-grader's home life and his school life are often quite different. Your son may be getting the message at school that the way to be popular is through aggression...
...times, Forbes' crowds hit 200 in Iowa, where he has county chairmen in all 99 counties, as opposed to just 36 in 1996. He is genuine, some fans rave. He is not a politician, say others. In Bettendorf, at the medieval Jumer's Castle Lodge, Forbes played King Arthur to 300 loyal knights, each of whom--while dining on free Swedish meatballs--was asked to deliver five friends or relatives to the caucuses. Forbes wowed them with bug-eyed passion, some pretty good one-liners and simplistic but perfectly aimed shots at lobbyists, bureaucrats and Monica's ex-beau...
...were by the specter of provincialism, would have made. He began with those two heroes of realism, Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer. But Phillips' taste was more for the visionary, especially for the dark, light-mottled sea pieces of Albert Pinkham Ryder, and for the younger painters they inspired--Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and others. He was convinced that the defining characteristics of American art were more spiritual than stylistic and that they had been laid down in the 19th century...
Much to his surprise, his ideas, like Darwin's, reverberated beyond science, influencing modern culture from painting to poetry. At first even many scientists didn't really grasp relativity, prompting Arthur Eddington's celebrated wisecrack (asked if it was true that only three people understood relativity, the witty British astrophysicist paused, then said, "I am trying to think who the third person is"). To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what...