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...vaulting academic pedigree notwithstanding, he popularized among conservatives a polished and somehow posturing anti-intellectualism, caricaturizing his leftist opponents as effete and overly-cerebral nincompoops, and succeeding at it. He famously declared that he would “rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University...
...eyes glanced down the long table of relatives, halting on my 13-year-old cousin and my 80-year-old grandmother, whose birthdays we were somehow gathered one floor above a stripper cage to celebrate. Surely, there had been some mix-up. We were at the wrong restaurant. Something...
...Skimming the e-mail, somehow oblivious to its meaning, we all expressed bemusement—but not surprise—at her choice...
...older, she led a family backpacking expedition in California’s Lassen Park. Finding a long trail through a barren desert and up a cindercone volcano, she decided we were going to hike it. Never mind the heat. We ran out of water halfway there, but somehow made it back alive. After we collapsed from exhaustion, she announced that a trek up another mountain was in order. Her conviction didn’t waver after returning hikers informed us they had been pelted by hail near the summit. This was my aunt...
...taken on a male identity to avoid the stigma of dating women as a female. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the reaction was how, in the wake of a murder prompted by the urge to punish the transgression of gender roles, no one could resist the urge to somehow fit Teena into some kind of explainable category...