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...distinguish between the six “dances” that comprise the work and to pick up on the element of love that “Anniversary Dances” is supposed to represent. Yet despite this shortcoming, which is more attributable to Moravec than the Yings, the latter demonstrated remarkable versatility in their ability to master the extremely dissimilar music of two composers (Mozart and Moravec) who lived 200 years apart...
...will not need to throw “Fuck the Man!” parties—any more than men today feel a need to throw male-empowering “Fuck Women!” ones (although I suppose one might count final club parties among the latter). [see editor's note below...
...weakness of modern religion is its obsession with sin, G.K. Chesterton once observed. "A modern morality," he wrote, "can only point with absolute conviction to the horrors that follow breaches of the law." And so it has been with the religious conservatives who have overwhelmed the latter-day Republican Party. For preachers like Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and Pat Robertson, the prospect of hell has always been far more vivid than the possibility of heaven. Presidential candidates like Robertson, Pat Buchanan and Gary Bauer have loaded up on the "Thou Shalt Nots" and rarely, if ever, mentioned the grace...
...intelligence necessary to make healthy life decisions, the charm to win the attention of men without promise of physical compensation, the maturity to acknowledge the difference between love and lust, and the confidence to demand the former in situations where they are pressured to compromise themselves for the latter. The mysterious allure of virginity is not rooted in an image of innocence and purity, but rather in the notion of strength: the ability to withstand temptation even in the face of societal norms and expectations...
...While I fully respect and admire both of the latter identities—for their contributions to both the professional world and to the health of family life— these two seemingly fulfilling options have their limits; for example, while my own mother is a typical superwoman, I witnessed firsthand the career sacrifices she made in order to accommodate her family above all else. Furthermore, even in the U.S., many families cannot subsist on one income. While the progressive agenda of America’s Second Wave feminists during the 1960s and 1970s boldly paved...