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...Engle prescription for how a female doctor gets ahead is succinct: "By being more qualified than a man." That statement may sound like feminine chauvinism, but patients who balk at being cared for by a woman might consider what they are missing. To get her degree, to complete her residency, to earn specialty certification, the typical woman doctor of today had to show more determination and skill than her male counterpart...
...oils are a different matter. The White Rhino Injured, 1966, is a marvel of surrealist compression: the unfortunate pachyderm's skin is reduced to several turns of gray, wrinkled hosepipe surrounding a block of white meat from which pink blood flows; it is a funky but hauntingly succinct image of vulnerability. "I'm a maze of information about reflections mirrored in opposites," begins the caption to his punningly titled Wizdumb Bridge, 1969, and the declaration fits the imagery, which manages to be both specific and curiously vague. The cracked concrete is Wiley's studio floor, the tipped...
...those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque. An earnest revival preacher loses his audience after a child asks to have his mother cured of a hangover. There are ugly girls with names like Glynese or Carramae and crones like Mrs. Freeman of Good Country People, who "beside the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone had two others, forward and reverse...
...times, the new film criticism seems to wallow in groundless theorizing. One succinct and complete definition of a Godardian-Marxist viewpoint was voiced by Jim Crawford '71 in his review of Sontag's Duet for Cannibals...
Feeling oppressed, in fact, has become something of a national sport with its own succinct rules. A posture of unequivocal outrage is de rigueur. An oppressed minority need not include in its title the lawyer-thrilling term anti-defamation league. But it helps, especially at the top of the stationery when one writes letters to the New York Times. The decisive moment of victory in the game is not when an oppressed minority gets off the defensive but when it puts everybody else on the defensive. When, like the Italians with their anti-Mafia crusade, it makes others not only...