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...theater, everything he had done had been strong and successful, and then the terrible thing had happened: he couldn’t act,” it begins. The novel’s central crisis, Axler’s loss of the ability to act, becomes a symbol??thin though it may seem—for a world coming apart at its very fabric. “The Humbling,” Roth’s thirtieth book and his fourth novel in as many years, is a brief and anguished meditation on the social, physical, and mental...
...follies of their respective eras. We honor George Washington no less on Presidents’ Day because he owned slaves, but rather we honor him as the father of our country. To sacrifice the reputation, dignity, and heroism of a visionary man as a “symbol?? for the worst excesses committed by colonial governments is both unfair and obtuse. Christopher Columbus—in his courage, independence of mind, and strong faith—rather symbolizes what was best about our civilization, not what was worst...
...turns out, SAA and BGLTSA are not so irreconcilable. Western culture has been inundated with so many out-of-the-closet stories that it seems like we’ve seen them all. Even that ultimate gender-bending symbol??the drag queen—has become cliché; witness the Adams House jocks who were vamping it up on Drag Night last Friday...
...spotted hyenas, Wrangham explained that the hypothesis long trumpeted by Gould, which claims that the hyena’s genitals are a non-adaptive by-product of high androgen levels, is wrong. “It’s an unusual case, but it seems to me an important symbol??first of the supposed correctness of the anti-adaptationist perspective, and now of the fact that simplistic thinking can be found on both sides of the debate,” he said. “Despite [Gould’s] long-held claims, an adaptationist perspective may well...
...letter, Kiely said that another leader could better initiate reforms and Law was “more than a manager” and was a “symbol?? of the Catholic Church...