Word: impertinente
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Does his inadequacy with the figure matter? Yes, but not fatally. Turner himself -- whose Slave Ship, often seen in New York in the 1870s, is probably the main source for Ryder's perennially astonishing vision of Jonah in the churning waters, about to be swallowed by the whale -- also drew...
In the days when very few came out of the closet, and when heavily masculine types applied brutally obscene epithets to presumed homosexuals, gentler but still condescending terms like the quasi-official title chosen by male homosexuals themselves I cannot imagine. In this country and England one of its meanings...
Is the woman still a mother? Impertinent question. You dared not ask it on Mother's Day pumped up with bonhomie, but now a few weeks afterward, in the cooler hours, the problem takes a tomblike shape. In terms of technical, logical definition, can a mother be a mother without...
A great many mysteries feature journalists, largely because a great many mystery writers got their literary start at newspapers. Few have chronicled the freewheeling snoop as extensively, or as comically, as Gregory Mcdonald, Edgar winner and former arts and humanities editor of the Boston Globe, in his series about the...
But this observation immediately plunges Lasch into the difficult work of splitting infantile hairs. While the author agrees with scientists and industrialists that control over nature is a good thing, and with environmentalists that nature must be preserved (these two groups being loosely identified with Prometheus and Narcissus), he wants...