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...white Christians an oppressed minority in Nebraska? At least one judge thinks so -- but that might have more to do with his removal from office for setting off fireworks in his colleagues' offices, among other peculiar juridical habits. Former Douglas County judge Richard "Deacon" Jones, who was fired from his position by the state Supreme Court for "a continuing pattern of misconduct," claims that the scales of justice just can't handle fat jurists, and has filed a discrimination complaint with the state's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Nonetheless, what Gurian and Pollack both bitterly lament--and convincingly illustrate--is the peculiar pain, and the potential loneliness, of being a boy in America today. Especially acute are the adolescent years, when boys look hulking and powerful but are in fact needy and terrified. The statistics are scary: adolescent boys are five times as likely to commit suicide as adolescent girls; adolescent boys are 1.5 times as likely as girls to be victims of violent crime; boys are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit disorder and mental illnesses; and boys commit violent crime at a higher rate...
...from the elevator camera's glimpse at the top of his head. While bald men have a reasonably good chance of being sent to the right floor, others have little luck. And should someone be sent to the wrong floor, he oftentimes arrives at a foreign landing with a peculiar indignation--as if my mistake were more insolence than inattention...
...marriage penalty is a peculiar "tax" levied mainly on married couples in which the husband and wife have similar incomes. Once relatively rare, pay parity in two-earner homes has become fairly common in the '90s--and there's the rub. Such households often pay more federal income tax married than if the two earners had remained single and just moved in together. How's that for Uncle Sam walking in on your love life...
...could The Waste Land--and the sad poems, almost as peculiar, that followed it (from The Hollow Men to Little Gidding)--succeed to such an extent that by 1956 the University of Minnesota needed to stage his lecture there in a basketball arena? The astonishing growth of literacy between 1910 and 1940 certainly helps to explain the rise of an audience for modernist writing. But it was an audience chiefly of fiction readers. Fiction had claimed "real life," and in 1910 poetry was subsisting, for the most part, on vague appeals to nature and to God. Though from...