Word: fearless
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Kennedy, the Faulkner of upstate New York, again draws inspiration from Albany, the hometown he once described as an "improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels." The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician. How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work...
BOOKS . . . THE FLAMING CORSAGE: The Faulkner of upstate New York, William Kennedy again draws inspiration from of Albany in his new novel, 'The Flaming Corsage' (Viking; 209 pages; $23.95). Kennedy once described his hometown as an 'improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels.' "The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author's passion for place and his skill as a literary magician, says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "How else should one describe a writer who moves effortlessly through time and who can summon ghostly...
Certainly the premise of Reviving Ophelia (which takes its title from the doomed Hamlet heroine) is a familiar one. Pipher believes adolescence is an especially precarious time for girls, a time when the fearless, outgoing child is replaced by the unhappy and insecure girl-woman. "Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence," Pipher writes. "Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves." She decided to write the book because her own practice was increasingly occupied by girls--mostly white and middle class, she says--coping with...
...Fast and fearless, these mice were six times as likely to pick a fight as normal, wild-type mice. And they scratched and bit so fiercely that researchers had to intervene to keep them from killing their rivals. Moreover, the males engaged in "excessive and inappropriate" sexual advances, mounting females despite "substantial vocal protestations." "It was very dramatic," says Dr. Solomon Snyder of Johns Hopkins. "The females would squeal, 'Rape! Rape! Rape!' but the males just wouldn't stop...
Constructive discussion presupposes a measure of equality among persons that, regrettably, sits uncomfortably (if at all) with Professor Mansfield's public statements. A fearless and robust discussion of affirmative action would feature vigorous disagreements and sustained criticism. Given the variety of perspectives and breadth of political commitments within the Harvard community, this would be welcome indeed. But when disagreements assume the form of ad hominem arguments by tenured faculty toward graduate students' qualifications, the discussion is no longer principled disagreement but, rather, personal attack. Without evidence or credible justification, such accusations amount to little more than ideologically-charged assaults upon...