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...This does not seem to be a message that breeds understanding, but it is an idea that So needs to think about. I, personally, am all for "cross-cultural" learning; I actually think it ideal and beautiful, but I find it absurd and insulting that So insist some people conform or yield while others...
...culture is sending a dangerous message to many women and some men that they must conform to one idealized body type," Swan said. "The slender supermodel image is just not realistic for most women...
...wouldn't say Lowell is traditional in a conservative sense there's no need to conform. These activities are about being part of a house," Lipper says...
...that Miller relates at the beginning of his section of "The Novelesque," Miller ties this to an exclusionary heterosexual, accomplished through the near-synonymity of the oedipal drama and marriage with the traditional novel. That is, queer lives might in fact be consisered queer exactly because they don't conform to these stories, and Miller suggests that "gay fabulation...has been inseparable from a series of experiments needing to tamper with the most deeply imprinted aspects of traditional narrative form." Barthes enters this series of experiments with a narrative practice that Miller joins him in naming "the novelesque without...
...English and Russian actresses Claire Bloom and Alla Demidova and soprano Anna Steiger all gave decidedly different interpretations of the poems, and for once, the contrast between East and West was constructive and original, highlighting the differences in dramatic interpretation between the two culture rather than forcing them to conform to one another...