Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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IATTEND a supposedly progressive university. On campus, there is supposed to be some awareness of women's issues and health concerns. But the students and faculty still seem ignorant of the melding of these two into female body image. Here there is no liberalism in the treatment of this subject. A lot of people think they can lay some claim on a woman's body because of her sex; a lot of people are wrong...
...lunching with some women friends shortly after I had given this subject some thought. We somehow got on the topic of a male friend's girlfriend. One of my friends said she did not understand the attraction the woman held...
REMBRANDT'S LANDSCAPES: DRAWINGS AND PRINTS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Neither his usual subject nor his familiar oil medium, but the master's bucolic visions are brilliant. Through...
...revealed how many copies of Rushdie, Eco or Hawking were actually read by those who bought them. Surveys of reading habits appear now and then; they must be discounted absolutely. Pollsters are not equipped with rubber truncheons to beat the truth out of interviewees. And where this subject is concerned, people lie. They will go on Donahue or Geraldo and confess, beaming, to every sin against God and man -- except the act of not having really read the latest much toted and touted tome they've been going around praising...
These results are subject to various interpretations. On the one hand, when they can find a respite from the demands and diversions of contemporary life, more people are reading more pap than ever before. On the other, Hawking's FRI rating of 3% amounts to a readership of some 30,000 for A Brief History of Time. Is that number shamefully low or encouragingly high? That probably depends on how it is read...