Word: expressionism
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Honor killing has its roots in the crude Arabic expression "a man's honor lies between the legs of a woman." For Arab women, virginity before marriage and fidelity afterward are considered musts. Men are expected to control their female relatives. If a woman strays, it is widely thought, the...
And Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely says an increase in the number of courses dealing with religion, many of which are taught by prominent faculty, as well as decreased fear that religion will lead to bigotry, has made expression of religion more acceptable.
Gene therapists are looking even further ahead. Pennsylvania's Wilson predicts that the next advance will be a mechanism built into the vector to regulate the expression of a therapeutic gene, turning it on or off. "Most diseases and most drugs require modifying the dose," he explains, "but the genes...
At the same time, he is not just smooth, flippant glibness. Under his literate, articulate mode of referential expression, there is genuine heart for goodness and sincere adulation for genius. Even though he describes his work as camp/kitsch/pastiche-and yes, it looks it, when it does not look like the apocalypse...
That wasn't just Bennett's customary gravitas. It was the sound of conservatism in despair, a bewildered keening that could just as easily have come from Gary Bauer or Robert Bork or William Kristol. All year the political right awaited the moment when everyone would agree that Ken Starr...