Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...objected to this violation of volunteerist esprit de corps. Nowadays women and men of all ages are only too willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed in a statuary group of Pygmalion and Galatea, a pigeon mistook her for the real thing and attempted a landing. Slipping on her gooey body makeup, the bird dug in its claws and drew blood. Mennen remained as immobile as her bronze original, earning a standing ovation...
...adopt the so-called "Molloy's Class Mask." The key to becoming so facially favored apparently, is to spend hours before a mirror aping the book's clearly-labeled diagrams, which show an upper-class executive type holding his head up, and an average slouch, well, slouching. This modern Pygmalion proceeds to offer up a self-graded speech test that seems to miss some of the subtleties of poor speech--one is downgraded for pronouncing "boil" "berle" and "left" "weft...
...myth of Pygmalion and Galatea (the sculptor falling in love with the figure he had carved) had vast resonance for Rodin; in his marble Pygmalion and Galatea, 1910, the girl emerging from the stone seems literally shaped by the carved sculptor's own passion, as though the contrasts between consciousness and dream, body and effigy, art and life, subject and object could all be packed into one erotic metaphor. No wonder that when he made his image of The Sculptor and His Muse (circa 1890), the Muse's hand was laid encouragingly on the sculptor's genitals...
...When I was first asked to come to St. Louis as a consultant," recalls Gaddes, "I think I was expected to recommend that they get a large hall, hire Renata Scotto and do Il Trovatore." Instead, St. Louis has heard Rameau's Pygmalion, Martin y Soler's Tree of Chastity and the world premiere of The Village Singer, by the American composer Stephen Paulus...
...with the onset of puberty, when girls become more interested in boys than in building skills like math. Since the rise of feminism, however, female underachievement in math has been generally chalked up to sexism: the low expectations of parents and teachers are said to produce a 'reverse Pygmalion effect." According to Educator Elizabeth Fennema and Psychologist Julia Sherman, in an article on the subject, "Sexual stereotyping of mathematics as a male domain operates through a myriad of subtle influences from peer to parent and within the girl herself...