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...town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde, his example hung in the air like the moon, out of reach but never out of sight. And the question he always seemed to pose for them was not what to make of what he was doing, although that could be puzzling enough, but what more to make...
...true - is wildly sexualized and lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects human commonalities. The women who wear it want to observe fellow citizens, but remain unseen, as if they were cctv cameras...
...swift approval of the review—conducted mostly out of sight and with no public dissent among faculty members—also bodes well for Kagan, who is considered a leading candidate for Harvard’s presidency. By comparison, the undergraduate curricular review at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has dragged on for four years—with no clear end in sight...
...difficulties with democracy: “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” and clouds leaders’ minds when annoying electoral results or too rigid constitutions come between them and power. And just like Macbeth, Latin America’s patriarchs lose sight of their humanity through equivocating terms and definitions...
hometown until the next morning, when I woke up to a breathtaking sight of the Tongyeong coast. I felt great sympathy towards Yun and his longing for his return...