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...most part, these traumatic events occur at a younger age than what the general population experiences??another cause of the higher levels of PTSD within the group...
...insatiable need afflicts Hector Brennan and June Singer, war survivors whose lives are unwillingly but unavoidably entwined by the aftermath of the Korean War. Fundamentally a contemporary war novel, “The Surrendered” derives its plot from a scrutiny of the most basic of human experiences??love and conflict. Though beleaguered with a requisite love triangle and sometimes seized by paroxysms of sentiment, the novel is a paradigm of narrative layering—a finely crafted story that revels in stripping away an illusory front of beauty to expose the brutality beneath...
...College’s survey of undergraduate’s J-Term experiences??which had a student response rate of over 30 percent—yielded over 270 pages of comments from students, according to Harris, and administrators say they are waiting to pore through the feedback before deciding whether concrete action is necessary...
...economy of the gaze, vision too exercises a system of control over women’s bodies. Positioning the self against an inassimilable (female) other, the eye serves as an explicit instrument of objectification and mastery. As feminist Luce Irigaray theorizes, the supremacy of looking over all other sensory experiences??hearing, smelling, tasting, touching—has effected an impoverishment of bodily relations. Deflated to the two-dimensional surface—the film, the television screen, the billboard, the magazine advertisement—the female body has lost its material weight: thus abstracted, it has become an object...
...reticence may not be the only virtue holding him back from pursuing an autobiographical project: “I haven’t figured out the genius of organizing it yet,” Gomes said, adding that 67 years have afforded him a bevy of experiences??swearing in Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George H.W. Bush, no less—that would intensify the challenge of documenting his life...