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...linguistic, cultural, religious and economic self-interests have blossomed worldwide. As Robert Lansing, Wilson's Secretary of State, warned, self-determination "is bound to be the basis for impossible demands and create trouble in many lands. What a calamity that the phrase was ever uttered." Where does the noble concept of self-determination stop...
...anthropologist Helen Fisher's The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Will Change the World (due from Random House in May). But it's Angier, who has already won a solid reputation (and a Pulitzer Prize) at her day job, who most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate Geography is a delicious cocktail of estrogen and amphetamine designed...
...Boston College, the concept of "feminism" has been reduced to the level of a fourth-grade playground Squabble. With all of the indignant righteousness normally reserved for young children and glassy-eyed absolutists, Professor Mary Daly asserted to the academic community last week that "the root of the mess in society is patriarchy." Turning away potential male students at the door with the words "you are not welcome here," Daly has decreed that no male students can enroll in her "Introduction to Feminist Ethics" course. Her contention is that their presence would constitute a distraction to female student engaged...
...Upon further musing, I've decided that it's a matter of no concern to be a young-looking person with really old-person tastes. While my particular brand of anachronism is rarer among so-called "Gen Y-ers," nostalgia's a far-from-novel concept. For example, the early 90s had a strong 70s influence, with the flowered bell-bottoms and fusion. The 70s, with "Happy Days" and "Grease," retained a strong nostalgia for the 50s, and the 50s were a throwback to the 20s. And, as the On Thin Ice comedy troupe proved in their...
Upon further musing, I've decided that it's a matter of no concern to be a young-looking person with really old-person tastes. While my particular brand of anachronism is rarer among so-called "Gen Y-ers," nostalgia's a far-from-novel concept. For example, the early 90s had a strong 70s influence, with the flowered bell-bottoms and fusion. The 70s, with "Happy Days" and "Grease," retained a strong nostalgia for the 50s, and the 50s were a throwback to the 20s. And, as the On Thin Ice comedy troupe proved in their...