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...gender and sexuality into one program, doing so has the potential to force superficial connections between topics whose relation to each other is tenuous at best. In particular, on the women and gender studies end, issues such as women’s suffrage and female contributions in the realm of wars, politics, and science have little, if anything, to do with sexuality, and instead are primarily concerned with the historical influence of gender roles on larger society...
...going to set things right. We come to realize, of course, that we are once again in the presence of evil?s banality. We also realize, naturally, that there is no redress for monstrousness of the kind he practiced. Psychopathic behavior of his kind is far beyond the realm of ordinary understanding, let alone forgiveness...
...psychological phenomenon of overcompensation is well understood in the realm of psychiatry. Humans often attempt to negate what they perceive as unwanted personal traits by exaggerating their opposite. Talk a guy into feeling emasculated, and he’ll likely respond with hyperbolic fits of macho behavior. He might effuse hostility that wasn’t there before, show symptoms of homophobia, start using excessive profanity, or maybe stand up straighter—a pathetic exhibit, and only to prove to himself and the world that he is, indeed, a manly...
...Whitney show proceeds as far as Jasper Johns, but younger living artists don't turn up. Why would they? Picasso's innovations, which were largely in the realm of space and form, hardly apply to things like installation work, conceptual art or videos, the practices that so many artists are caught up in now. But it's also because Picasso's great discoveries have become the universally understood possibilities of the canvas. Artists long ago stopped thinking of themselves as operating in space that Picasso made possible. So did the rest of us. It's just space, like something...
...public policy and international strategy as well, best illustrated in his most influential work, “The Strategy of Conflict.” “As a probable economics major, it was really interesting for me to get a feel of the application of economics in the realm of political processes,” said observer Anna Y. Zhang ’10. “I’m really curious about game theory now. I can’t wait to read Schelling’s books...