Word: emotionalizing
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Midway through “Generosity,” Richard Powers’ stunning new novel, the charming businessman and geneticist Robert Kurton participates in a public debate with an unnamed novelist. The subject: genetic enhancement of human beings. The shy author begins, awkwardly reading from a prewritten speech. But...
Alternative futures call for alternative language. “1984” had Newspeak, “A Clockwork Orange” had Nadsat—each distorted, disorienting vocabulary a warning of possible ills. In “The Year of the Flood,” her most recent...
Health agencies have bombarded the public with guidance on how to prepare for the virus. But people who study risk have advice of a different sort. They recommend seeking out information and not relying on emotion alone. Often, the best information can be found by checking with multiple sources - the...
“Just the emotion and feeling inside of the locker room during halftime, you could really feel that we are in this game—we were excited, we were having fun, we were achieving the goals we set out for ourselves,” Nichols said.
“They had good goals, but I’m proud of the way we put it out there,” Nichols said. “I think it gives us really good preparation for the Ivy League because that’s the kind of emotion...