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...Maybe it's a mistake to ask who Bettie was, or what her underground eminence signifies. As Buck Henry writes: "The oft-told Betty Page story is peculiar - a morality tale with no discernible moral, not much plot, and a leading character who is at least elusive...
...employers, parents, or significant others. Much too has been made of the importance of putting creative work in digital form for the benefit of our peers and for the sake of human intellectual endeavor. But I’d wager that no one ever thinks about one peculiar side effect of all of this: it’s not just our peers we’re exposing ourselves to—it’s our progeny.Effectively, everything we now write and put online is a time capsule. What’s more, we aren’t burying these...
...Queen is acutely aware that the continued success of the monarchy depends on the careful nurturing of popular consent - and that a peculiar danger of being the best-known woman in the world for over half a century is becoming background noise, ubiquitous but forgotten. Her press secretary, Penny Russell-Smith, says that the last 15 years of coverage, focused mostly on the misadventures of the younger royals, has created "a generation of readers and viewers who aren't aware of what the Queen's work is all about." The antidote is more exposure. So not for the Queen...
...identity, rewarder of excellence, a visible oasis of continuity in an accelerating world, even as Prime Ministers (she's had 10) come and go. A clutch of other symbolic roles - Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, chief of the armed forces - reinforce a peculiar kind of omnipresence in public life. In a media-soaked age, that is a fantastic asset...
...embrace science if the subject matter is entrenched in culture or religion. Even worse for this issue of homosexuality, the science could be damaging in major ways. Firstly, what science might find as a genetic explanation for homosexuality—a mutated chromosome, an enlarged polymorphic marker, or a peculiar hypothalamus—could be used as a means of eliminating the sexual orientation. Pregnant women currently test their fetuses for diseases like Down Syndrome and abort these children if they are so inclined; they might not hesitate to do the same to avoid a gay child. Even more likely...