Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Although Any Woman's Blues employs an interesting technique for giving the author multiple voices and questioning the existence of a singular "I," Jong is all together too self-conscious at times...
...plan to have both? If so, you may be in for some trouble. So says Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. Hochschild contends that students who are convinced they can have it all are "about to walk off a cliff that they don't even know is there...
Social pressures fuel the desire to reach a greater height. Study after study has found that taller people achieve more success in business and have an easier time socially. Aware of this research, an author of how-to-succeed- in-business books who wanted his son to be taller asked Gertner for help. Argued the author: "I'd rather my son be 5 ft. 10 and a graduate of N.Y.U.'s business school than 5 ft. 6 and a Harvard Business School graduate. These extra 4 in. in height make much more difference in terms of success in a business...
...artist, Havel has always been a political prophet, prone to jeremiads. In Largo Desolato, the hero faces unspecified tortures, which he can avert if he changes his name and declares himself not to be the author of his works. Although he ultimately says no, he wavers for a moment, and that is enough to satisfy the state. In Temptation, Havel retells the Faust myth in terms of the ego-driven distortions of truth committed by his compatriots. In the essay The Power of the Powerless, he lambastes an archetypal grocer who places a poster saying WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE...
...author's smartest move is letting Hilary tell the tale. This young woman seems peculiarly passive and affectless, not the sort to dwell on or even recognize pathos or tragedy. All perceptions -- grocery displays, radio chatter, the sight of Victor vomiting in a bathroom -- pass through her consciousness with equal weightlessness. Hilary constantly learns things that anyone her age should probably already know. She removes some pictures from the room she and Victor have rented: "When I took them from the wall I noticed that the spaces the frames had occupied were a darker shade than the rest...