Word: pigeoning
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...discovering, signalled at Harvard a licensed free-for-all for aggressive attention. Be it jealousy or secret sex dreams, contempt just depended on the particular form of the particular insecurity. Glamor got attention all right. Glamor meant a presence to be dealt with, to be talked about, gossiped about, pigeon-holed, and dismissed with a movie magazine's form of voyeurism. It was impossible to start anything with anybody off cleanly. I was (looked) an enemy to the radical politicos, someone fit only for preppies; I was a scatterbrain for intellectuals; I was fantasy material for the dreamers, a never...
...less vulnerable than I was that freshman year. I live alone, but I'm not so lonely anymore. You could explain me away with ease: a rich girl radicalized, a neurotic psychoanalyzed, and then the political radical rejecting psychoanalytic individualism for feminist collectivism. You could type me and pigeon-hole me and attach your label to my name to discredit me by such convention. And I know you will. Go right ahead. But my experiences are as true as your explanations...
Nevertheless, the Cultural Establishment persists in playing pigeon to an enemy art, an art that would subvert its reason for being. It welcomes the abuse applied to it under the name of art. It dictates old conditions for apprehending the new in art. And then, under a front of generous tolerance, it feeds its own preeminence. But what an empty, empty game it plays...
...BEHAVIORIST speaking. In the past four decades the heady belief has grown that people can be molded by simply deciding what they should be and then manipulating their behavior, as though the world were a laboratory and man a rat or a pigeon. No one has done more to advance the notion than B.F. Skinner, Harvard psychology professor and author of the bestselling Beyond Freedom and Dignity (TIME cover, Sept. 20, 1971). Those who claim to leave man "free," Skinner believes, are merely abandoning him to uncontrolled forces in his environment. To Skinner, observable behavior is the only reality...
...experts have become convinced that a jury trial is a poor place to determine mental health. Nor did the President seem to find much in the criminal code in need of easing. One notable exception: it will no longer be a federal offense to detain "a United States carrier pigeon...