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Critics have called Wilson a reductionist, a determinist and worse. He answers his detractors as if they were tenured Neanderthals, stunted by ideology and ignorant of the molecular and cellular events responsible for the genetic evolution of human nature. Freudians, Marxists and literary deconstructionists all fail to meet Wilson's rigorous standards of proof. His advice to the politicians of diversity: "For best results, cultivate individuals, not groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Great Leap Together | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

Equality feminism "looks at men and women as individuals first, and then as members of a gender group," according to Boggs. She said this different perspective is an alternative to the reductionist views that she feels dominates the current discussion...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: New Feminist Group Formed | 5/4/1994 | See Source »

...only is Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" a travesty of the Raymond Carver short stories upon which it is based, it is also a completely boring and stupid movie. It is embarassingly tacky, facile and reductionist, and it's also three hours long. As RuPaul says, take me to the vomitorium...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Not So Super 'Cuts' | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...These reductionist labels oversimplify the multidimensional aspect of the figures to which they are applied. Doesn't it make more sense to gauge what Colin Powell means to the Harvard community as a whole and not what he means to one sector of it? Harvard is so diverse, it would be impossible to find a speaker whom some groups did not consider controversial or even offensive. Keeping that fact in mind, Colin Powell is a speaker who can relate to a great portion of the Harvard community better than most for two simple reasons: 1. he has faced intolerance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critics of Powell are Practicing Intolerance | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Whether one peruses Matisse, the master reductionist, who uses plain black brush strokes to sketch a woman's face in "Tete,"--or Dufy, who uses a charcoal pencil to delineate contours without filling in the flesh of bourgeois French men in "Personnage"--the figures create a dynamism that only modern art evinces. This visual movement strongly contrasts the static and frigid characters of nineteenth century French artists like Ingres and David, whose canvases present both form and content, with the former prevailing...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: Exhibit of Modern Art Surveys the 20th Century's Aesthetic Innovators | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

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