Word: idealism
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...mustang a few years ago," recalled Mickey Connolly, co-founder and CEO of Conversant, whose clients include much of the FORTUNE 500. "The techniques he used to calm fear and replace it with trust and partnership struck me as crucially important to managers and executives. Horses and cattle are ideal to work with because they give you immediate, obvious feedback when you're trying to get them to do something...
...four centuries later. Granted, social attitudes toward the repellent aspects of old age were different. And yet it is difficult to look at his numerous drawings of horribly, freakishly ugly old people ... LEONARDO'S PECULIAR AND SADISTIC IMAGINATION IS AT A BIG REMOVE FROM OURS. He is saying, Idealize as much as you want, but shun denial. The necessary other side of the ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries-an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility of desire and has something mockingly demonic, not just medical, about...
House: Winthrop Concentration: English and American Literature and Language and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Eat it. Hometown: Mequon, Wisconsin Ideal Date: Pick up a bottle of wine. Head back to my place. Climb into bed. Whip out our laptops. IM until sunrise. Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Accost me. I’ve got problems with focus, but I can’t ignore an attack. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Crying/masturbating in my common room. Watching Law and Order SVU. Using my own tears as lubricant. First thing you notice about...
...show. ?She was the power behind the throne,? she told the New York Times in 1986. ?She helped her husband out. Mother always knew best, too.? Spoken like a real-life good wife, good mother and do-gooder. But Jane was also a career woman, embodying an ideal of feminine grace and pluck that may seem antique today but was a beacon for her age. She was a great lady, a terrific person. And I?d say that even if I thought that, if I did, Jane would reach out from the beyond and punch...
...failings of family life—and its surprising strengths.Laurel T. Holland ’06-’07 plays Bette, the eponymous bride, with appealing directness. Bette’s series of miscarriages defines the dramatic arc of the play. She yearns for the impossible ideal of a family life full of children—and in doing so ignores Skippy (Joshua M. Brener ’07), the one son she has. Holland portrays that dual personality with ease, presenting a fascinating ambiguity between childlike innocence and pathetic nagging.Michael B. Hoagland ’07 brings...