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Dali went to art school in Madrid in the early 1920s. "I'll be a genius," he wrote in his diary two years before that. "Perhaps I'll be despised and misunderstood, but I'll be a genius, a great genius." Cold and diligent, he figured out all his poses and provocations in advance. Politically, too, he wanted to be shocking; later Dali would turn into an archconservative, the living national treasure of Franco's long regime, but in the 1920s -- the years of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship -- he was a vehement parlor red. He even did jail time...
...tell you stories of an angst-ridden childhood. She can't tell you how she published her first lyric at the age of six, or how she struck out on her own after kindergarten, or how she spent her adolescence in a suburban wasteland, misunderstood by her peers. Though she's a poet and, she admits, most poets come from such dramatic beginnings, Tracy K. Smith '94 never enjoyed these fruits of misery...
...anonymous here. The city is malleable enough to change under almost anyone's influence. When artists asked for cheap living space, the city gave them a neighborhood--cheap lofts in the Leather District rezoned for their convenience. When it became clear that Boston was segregated into isolated, misunderstood communities, the city planned a new T line, linking the neighborhoods around its outer edges...
...Rather than censure me, the family should thank me for introducing rational discourse into the otherwise emotionally and politically charged atmosphere of the family wedding. You're welcome, Aunt May. Too bad if I happened to ruin cousin Lisa's wedding day in a moment of selfimportant delusion. poor misunderstood me, but ever valiant in fighting the good fight...
Frank has misunderstood the entire point of the First Amendment. Speech is not protected under the United States Constitution based on whether or not it is determined to have value. Speech is protected simply because it is speech...