Word: concealability
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...little-known fact about Harvard students is that we hate each other almost as much as the rest of the world hates us—maybe more. When one of us succeeds, the rest of us go berserk. Public congratulations barely conceal private disgust, which turns out to be an even poorer mask for deep, soul-burning jealousy and crippling self-doubt. The distance from “How could she...” to “Why didn’t I...” to “Undeserving slut” is, unfortunately, short and easily...
...through language may be a key to determining other people’s consciousness and experience, according to Dennett. But the panelists also pointed out that another unique feature of language is that it allows humans to hide intentions. “God gave us language so we can conceal our thoughts,” Dennett responded. Questions from the audience focused on issues such as free will, spirituality, and what constitutes certainty and proof. “Proof is that which makes everybody shut up,” Gilbert said. “No,” Hauser responded...
...more than 4,000 illegal aliens will walk across the busiest unlawful gateway into the U.S., the 375-mile border between Arizona and Mexico. No searches for weapons. No shoe removal. No photo-ID checks. Before long, many will obtain phony identification papers, including bogus Social Security numbers, to conceal their true identities and mask their unlawful presence...
There is a truth at the heart of this novel, although that doesn't make it good. The truth is that names can reveal the hidden essence of a thing, but they can also conceal it. That is an insight the reader will arrive at long before Whitehead's protagonist does (you may possibly be aware of it before opening the book). In the meantime he mopes around town riffing on the ephemera of small-town America and indulging his obsession with brand names. The tone is light, by turns over- and underwritten. Our hero seems as uninterested...
...surrealistic feminist document begins with a pseudo-parody of the modern hip-hop video, as a baggily clothed black man bounces his hand next to Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and points at his car’s rims. To emphasize this, the frame shifts to conceal Marshall’s head. Only her body can be seen. It’s possible that all this easy symbolism is actually a send up of easy symbolism; it could easily be allegory or self parody. While there is a self-consciousness to the weirdness here, I can?...