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...course, being an outcast is only the most recent unpleasant human condition to be cast into a medical context. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which has become the popular diagnosis for kids who won't behave, was the first to enter the national consciousness. ADD is treated by drugging hyperactive children with Ritalin...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Learning to Tough it Out | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...teenage motherhood; or perhaps it is just the accepting, enduring clarity and strength of the main character, and the renewal of faith in the human spirit-whatever the case, Porter has uplifted a typically unheralded heroine and established herself as capable of writing with power and grace in a context unbraved by many other authors...

Author: By Ben A. Cowan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neo-Naturalism's Bittersweet Nativity | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

However, Taylor claimed that James' approach was too narrow and that for many people religious experience occurs in a more social context...

Author: By Charles DE Simone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Philosopher Taylor Speaks On William James, Religion | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...varieties of human response, from the mirthful to the apathetic to the terrifying but never the genuine. This shock at lack of sentimentality is re-experienced in the 57 photographs displayed. In his most successful prints, he subverts the circumstantial reality of his subject and creates a new context without annihilating its essence...

Author: By Marcelline Block, AND CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Visual Arts and Music | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...varieties of human response, from the mirthful to the apathetic to the terrifying but never the genuine. This shock at lack of sentimentality is re-experienced in the 57 photographs displayed. In his most successful prints, he subverts the circumstantial reality of his subject and creates a new context without annihilating its essence...

Author: By Nadia ANYMONE Michelle berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WOLS Wolfgang Otto Schulze | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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