Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boy. You're something, aren...
...James Whistler, he was the first American painter since Benjamin West to become famous in England--and in France too. But he never set foot in the U.S. until his 21st year, and only rarely thereafter. The skeptic might say he hardly even qualified as an expatriate. As a boy he had no patria beyond the rented flat and the hotel room, and thus was unencumbered by the tension of nostalgia for early belonging that affects the real expat...
...humans are susceptible is nearly always the work of sexual maladjustments, and that erotic desire starts not in puberty but in infancy, seemed to the respectable nothing less than obscene. His dramatic evocation of a universal Oedipus complex, in which (to put a complicated issue too simply) the little boy loves his mother and hates his father, seems more like a literary conceit than a thesis worthy of a scientifically minded psychologist...
...they are not the only ones who won't be saddened by this outcome." Indeed, count many right-to-die supporters in that group. "There is much support for the principle of a right to die," says Grace, but many advocates have lamented seeing Kevorkian become the poster boy of the issue. "He's too unpredictable and wacky," says Grace. Some hope his removal from the scene may clear the way for calmer arguments. His theatrics have detracted from addressing the wrenchingly difficult issues of the subject, a fact that Kervorkian himself may have sensed when he said Friday that...
Even if you're not interested in seeing George Plimpton do body shots off of an over tanned cabana-boy, Palm Beach offers an opportunity to whittle away trust funds on a deluxe spring break...