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...criticism of the rally is two-pronged. First, it limits or, at least inhibits, ideological freedom because people with controversial views might refrain from speaking at the Kennedy School. Second, the rally gave students a superficial bird's-eye view of the controversy. Thus, by protesting the political ideology of a forum speaker, these students have potentially deprived themselves of other speakers who might offer different opinions. It seems as if the students who were walking in a circle, protesting and singing chants, were not just walking in circles in a literal sense...
Watch out, River residents--Quadlings are traveling in style. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...the super-shuttle...
Here crystallization means not so much synthesis and formation as a mode of representation in which objects are viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...
Some have noted with irony that the candidate who wrote that the "Momma bird builds the nest" and that women are "less equipped psychologically" to succeed in the workplace seems to be dominated by two females. But those observers miss the point, for to the candidate, the issue is not gender but loyalty. From both Bay and Shelley, he receives unquestioned fidelity. Buchanan has referred to his sister as "my Bobby Kennedy." Says Chavez: "This isn't a job to Bay. This is family." For Shelley, it's not a job; it's her life...
...Buchanan, the feminist movement is against the will of God. "Rail as they will against discrimination, women are not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this...