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...whatever elements of its game Harvard had lost in the third, it found again in the fourth. It seemed as if the Crimson had re-adjusted to the Pionoeers’ uncomplex, power-oriented style of play...

Author: By Alexander C. Britell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Host of Holy Happenings Help Harvard | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

...putting them into dialogue with the work occurring in other disciplines. That is, women’s studies does have a focus on women and gender as history has a focus on the historical (this hardly seems a potent critique). This does not render the work in the field uncomplex, unnuanced or unacademic. At its core, Kavulla’s critique seems to be that the work in women’s studies is somehow biased or unintellectual because of its focus on gender. Kavulla omits an analysis of the ways in which all approaches have agendas, all analytical lenses...

Author: By Jennifer C. Nash, | Title: Column on Women’s Studies Simple-Minded | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...then we lost food. First they took the red meat, the white bread and the Chocolate Decadence desserts. Then they came for the pink meat, the cheese, the butter, the tropical oils and, of course, the whipped cream. Finally, they wanted all protein abolished, all fat and uncomplex carbohydrates, leaving us with broccoli and Metamucil. Everything else, as we know, is transformed by our treacherous bodies into insidious, slow-acting toxins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Don't We Like The Human Body? | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...with a picture window to let in strong, clarifying, psychological light. Hamlet, called Tony Burgess, comes home-sulky, sneering, perverse-after two years in Asia, certain that his new stepfather was his mother's paramour, suspecting he is also his father's murderer. This is an Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified with the lover's role that to kill his stepfather would be to kill himself. Truth tumbles out in a climactic modern Closet Scene, but consequences take a therapeutic rather than tragic turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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