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Though at an abstract level the leveling of the chorus may seem antidemocratic, in practice it disperses the site of the conflict. Medea’s struggle is no longer that of just one woman, but rather a general feminist dilemma...
Harvard students have cultural connections that they could use to establish same-sex relationships as positive—much more subtly than pictures in textbooks ever could. Abstract discussions of politics seldom change people’s positions on issues of sexuality and often produce fiestas of misunderstanding and scorn. It is far more effective to give homosexuality a face. Small things like offhandedly mentioning a friend your mother met while visiting is gay or watching the occasional movie with a positively depicted gay character can go a long way toward eroding the impersonal concept...
These small gestures turn “homosexual” from a concept into a person, and lay the groundwork for a more abstract discussion that doesn’t have to take the form of clashing ideologies or religious beliefs. Marriage amendments brought issues of sexuality to the table. Harvard students can and should use natural conversational openings to have engaged and engaging discussions with tangible impact on ideas about sexuality—so long as they resist the impulse to treat other positions as stupid...
...Kooning's moment of art-world pre-eminence was brief, from the death of Pollock in 1956 to the early 1960s, when the imperturbable cool of Pop began to make the surplus drama of Abstract Expressionism look dated and overwrought. To refocus his ambitions, he moved to the Hamptons, on the east end of Long Island. But isolation intensified his drinking problem. Whole months could be spent guzzling Johnny Walker Red. The worst bouts sent him to the hospital for weeks at a time. Much of his work from the '60s was inebriated--slack or shrill...
...hour-long journey into the abstract workings of Buñuel and co-writer Salvador Dali’s seemingly bottomless imaginations, L’Age d’Or is a collection of unnerving vignettes, treating the viewer to such visual non sequiturs as men climbing on ceilings, a woman caressing and kissing a statue, and a man with a face of flies. It is challenging viewing, but the rewards are immense...