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...attitude evinced by The Salient demonstrates a distorted perception of gay men and lesbians, focusing its attention on the sexual aspects of homosexuality and not on the social and political ramifications of identifying oneself as a gay man or a Furthermore, it implies that the GLSA functions as some sort of dating service or a place to make sexual connections when, in reality, GLSA functions as a support groups and political organization advocating human rights. The Salient, by implying that GLSA is interested in 'recruiting' new members one the basis of their sexual prowess, shows that they have accepted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLSA | 3/6/1985 | See Source »

WITH THE SUBJECT is oneself, what is there to say. Roland Barthes believes that "very often, you know, in interviews...a somewhat sadistic relationship is established between the interviewer and the interviewee, where it's a question of ferreting out some kind of truth...I only know that it's a rather traumatic experience that provoke in mean "I have nothing to say response...

Author: By Roland Bathes, | Title: Word Grain | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...Supposing that to be true, it's because I don't much like interviews I feel trapped between two dangers either one enunciates positions in an impersonal manner, leading people to believe that one considers oneself a "thinker" or else I constantly say "I" end up accused of egotism...

Author: By Roland Bathes, | Title: Word Grain | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...offer any serious benefit to the mind. Questions of the environment are almost always reduced to issues of politics. Most people no longer make personal identifications with nature, yet people recognize themselves as natural objects. Here, too, then, the absence of something worthwhile leads back to a dissociation from oneself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Is Our Dover Beach? | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...perhaps"; in the world of punctuality and appointments, one may not be able to control ( all of time or even much of it, but some hours have to be claimed as one's own if time is to have value and not mere use. The missed appointments are with oneself. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man sought to live on the nodes of time so that he might "slip into the breaks and look around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Where Is Our Dover Beach? | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

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