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Brown argues against the popular conception of Cunningham's dance as having no meaning, a subject none of the other writers touch. Acknowledging that Cunningham leaves few clues about what he's doing, she nonetheless insists that "his own dancing is suffused with mystery, poetry and madness--expressive of root emotions, generous yet often frightening in their nakedness." She points to Cunningham's use of the dancer's internal sense of rhythm, explaining that his practice of rehearsing a piece by timing it over and over with a stopwatch is far from mechanical, as is often charged...
Epstein's main objection to the press is that journalists are overanxious to root out government duplicity, Yet his own establishment bias colors his presentation as clearly as the journalists' desire to create issues colors theirs, and Epstein ends up looking like an apologist for Agnew's desire to smother the "effete intellectual snobs" of the media. The press may not be able to give the whole story. But the fact that journalists do consider themselves "active pursuers of the truth"--a role that Epstein thinks plausible only for unbiased social scientists--rather than "agents for others who desire...
Since then, Preusser said, she has "spread out" her interests, and seen the root causes of problems plaguing Cambridge schools. Believing it "foolish" to work through middlemen, Preusser said, she decided to run for the council this year with the endorsement of the Cambridge Convention...
...dedicated to eradicating male privilege. Men are the enemy, after all. Furthermore, males who proudly declaim their own "liberation"--meaning their rejection of sexual stereotypes--stumble noticeably between theory and practice, especially when practice involves concrete sacrifices. "Most women find out that a little bit of crying does not root out the deeply embedded patriarch," the Sourcebook comments dryly. This is not to say that men can never be legitimate feminists--a group of men who found a child care center in Tucson, Arizona, do earn the Sourcebook's grudging respect--but the way is certainly long and hard...
Hutchison's designated savior rejects any suggestion that the root cause of the company's trouble is Hong Kong's freewheeling atmosphere. Says Wyllie: "Hong Kong is still a place where you can make money freely and legitimately and, what's more, you can keep it." As for Hutchison, he adds: "Once we have stopped to take a breath, then the growth can start again"-presumably from a drastically shrunken base...