Word: geniusã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...much of his persona as “tortured genius?? comes across in your work? How did you separate or move away from media construction of the Unabomber versus actual psychological exploration...
...intentions of the play is to shatter that “tortured genius?? sentimentality. Kaczynski was certainly a math prodigy of sorts, skipped two grades and so on. But mathematicians seem to concur that his research topic, boundary functions, was a backwater, a narrow field of limited interest. As for his image as a political visionary, if you spend some time with the manifesto and the works that inspired its writing, you’ll see how unoriginal a document it is. It’s a mix of borrowed ideas and personal pathology (e.g. things he?...
...course, in addition to its revelatory value as the residual evidence of a ‘genius?? at work, this exhibit includes works of astounding visual and artistic expression—captivating, as well, for the mere, yet sublime, settling of pigment on the paper’s surface. The images range from obscure compositions to variations of the quintessential de Kooning women...
...what of it? Surely we can forgive the professor’s preference for working on projects like cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s prison meditations (1997’s Death Blossoms). After all, Cornel West is a genius??“one of the most preeminent minds of our time,” according to cornelwest.com, with a “deep grasp of a multitude of subject matter.” True, his writings, like those of any great man, occasionally inspire carping from West’s political enemies (jealous fellow professors...