Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collective neuroses of a seemingly distant time and place. The book also serves as a reminder of our own generation's unhealthily narrow-minded obsession with sexual identity. Amidst the increasingly convoluted discourse of love, marriage and sexual orientation, Maddox refuses to offer simple answers where none exist. D.H Lawrence embodied a kind of erotic pleasure that was oddly circumscribed. He articulated a "free love" ethic which Maddox reveals to be perversely doctrinaire and neurotic. His latest biographer appreciates these contradictions...
...Though Harvard keeps asserting that there are not enough qualified women and minority scholars, we believe that they do exist," Song said. "But the question is how are the criteria set, who is setting them, and how hard is Harvard really trying...
...travel to Petersburg in 1869; he remained in Dresden. His stepson Pavel was not murdered by nihilists or anyone else. A pest and a spendthrift, he tormented the author all his life, and a standard scene from biographies has Pavel being forcibly kept from Dostoyevsky's deathbed. Nechaev did exist, and Dostoyevsky did transform him into a character in Demons, but the student his gang murdered in a celebrated crime was one Ivan Ivanov. Coetzee could hardly help knowing this, but not a word of preface or footnote explains that historical truth has been meddled with...
Transcript fraud does exist, Smith and Fallontowne agree, but it hasn't been a major problem at Harvard...
...difficult for anyone to get through the process. If there's any tilt away from a woman or a minority it gets magnified in the process," he says. "That's the danger. Some of those very small subconscious tilts still exist...