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...this very day with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and influx of non-governmental organizations. In a Foucauldian sense, all these institutions assert incredible power by defining what is better for Tanzania through the idea of development. But in many ways these organizations are selling a pipe dream to Tanzanians. Development, whatever that means, isn’t happening in my home-stay village, no matter how much Western education is emphasized...
...your book there is a crucifixion, but only reported secondhand by Jesus as something like a dream...
...dealt with and quickly discarded, including culture clashes, the horrors of battle, eroticism, and the war between the sexes. In one particularly memorable bit dealing with the latter issue, Étienne powerfully joins (and then separates) the idea of the phallus with woman: “I was dreaming that sister had her member cut off by me. / In my dream I held the remaining part in one hand. / And in the other the amputated part. / Each part had a hard-on. I was amused.” So what’s happening this whole time, as plots...
...East Coast several times in his youth and often made visits to Harvard. His father, James B. Hannah, to whom the exhibit is dedicated, graduated from the College in 1942. At the age of four, Hannah realized what he wanted to do with his life, following this dream to Bard College to study painting. The faculty members there were color-field painters, specializing in the abstract, so Hann ah transferred to the Parsons New School of Design two years later. “I wanted the challenge of verisimilitude,” Hannah says. “There is something...
...teacher: “Scooter getting straight A’s when I hit her with my dollars.” Ironically, while Smiff tries to exude cool, he merely achieves a parody of adult rappers. Big boys don’t roll in go-karts. Smiff can dream all he wants that he’ll pull up to his junior prom in a Maserati, but it’s not happening. Smiff is a 13-year-old wannabe and, while he’ll get older, it is doubtful that he’ll ever be half...