Word: karens
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...Reported by James Carney/Eureka, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/Washington
When the conversation does lock onto a subject, there can be fireworks. In the series' best segment, "Apocalypse," about the Flood, British author (and former nun) Karen Armstrong conducts a blistering twin attack. God, she maintains, is "not some nice, cozy daddy in the sky." He is "behaving in an evil way," effectively introducing mankind to the idea of justifiable genocide. Noah, meanwhile, is a "damaged survivor" who says no word about those drowning around him, much less tries to help them. Drinking his troubles away after reaching shore, he is enraged at being seen naked...
Such lunacy is "revealed most fully not at first meeting but over time." These words of appreciative wisdom come from Karen Wilkin, an independent curator and critic whose essay, "Mr. Earbrass Jots Down a Few Visual Notes," forms the centerpiece of a new book on Gorey's art and life...
...Lewis said in an e-mail message that the group's original meeting last May resulted in a positive change--the addition of Karen E. Avery '87 as an assistant dean of the College and a liaison to students about women's issues, campus safety and sexual orientation...
...Karen Tumulty/Washington. With reporting by S.C. Gwynne and Hilary Hylton/Austin