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...Never a day went by that penises were not discussed.” Other common topics included virginity, substance-abuse and pre-marital sex. Evens explains, “Bodies are constantly a concern in writing. I am interested in questions of identity incorporated with something not so abstract...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Expos(ed)? | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

...Never a day went by that penises were not discussed.” Other common topics included virginity, substance-abuse and pre-marital sex. Evens explains, “Bodies are constantly a concern in writing. I am interested in questions of identity incorporated with something not so abstract...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan, CONTRIBUTOR | Title: Expos(ed)? | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

Cohen said the redesign process should avoid the tendency to “turn the actuality of all these individualities into an abstract kitsch memorial...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSD Panel Addresses Ground Zero Plans | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

...1960s by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who was trained as a Freudian but--in classic Oedipal fashion--rebelled against his master. Beck dismissed Freud's ideas about the subconscious as so much scientifically unverifiable cigar smoke. In their place he crafted a quick, pragmatic therapeutic approach that dispensed with abstract theories and focused on results. Cognitive therapy attacks such symptoms as anxiety and depression by "coaching" patients on how to think about their lives more clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Therapy: Can Freud Get His Job Back? | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...newer books have found publishers in China again in the past year, he has lost much of his influence. Apart from the fact that Liu's name may not be mentioned in the Chinese media, today's Chinese readers are more interested in pragmatic issues than in the abstract philosophical questions that Liu has spent his life exploring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Chapter | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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