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...answer, at least in the traditional sense, is a troubling “no.” It’s true that “genius?? has become a catch-all term of praise for everything from violin playing to political strategy. Yet modern understanding of the word is best explicated by rapper and self-proclaimed genius Kanye West, as good a barometer of the cultural zeitgeist as any: “If you read books—which I don’t, none at all—about how to become a billionaire, they always...
...Learning from mistakes, attempting to repeat one’s successes: Those sound more like accessible middle-class values than like the innate inspiration or providential favor once attributed to exceptional persons. Indeed, as much as Americans treasure the idea of genius??“Baby Genius?? and “Baby Einstein” CD lines offer ambitious mothers-to-be the chance to transform their prenatals into intellectuals—we shy away from the suggestion of any hidden Mozarts in our midst...
...Yeah you get tired of writing for not only a very small audience of academics, but half of them are your rivals, and it’s part of competition. It gets vary fatiguing. THC: Professor Leo Damrosch, your renowned work ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius?? unconventionally focuses on an up close and personal view of Rousseau’s life. Can you expand more of what was in your head when you were approaching this biography in illuminating all these aspects of his life that don’t come to the face...
...manuscript to be transcribed to disguise the handwriting, and the manuscript was later delivered by an intermediary. Mullan says that Swift’s obscurity “was a kind of self-promotion–an incitement to his first readers to discover his ‘genius??… Sometimes the last thing that an anonymous author wants is to remain unidentified.”Anonymity returned to literature in 1996, once again as a political strategy, with the publication of “Primary Colors.” The book followed the campaign trail...
...national campaigns, we are assured that it is no less than the fate of the world. The fundamental importance of winning supposedly exonerates Karl “Boy Genius?? Rove to the right, and now Rahm “Rahmbo” Emanuel to the left. Democrats excuse Obama’s waffle on public financing;Republicans defend McCain’s “Compliance Fund.” They send out their best strategists to hem, haw, and equivocate. Journalists, currying favor, perhaps, or tied to their own politics, let them...