"the most unoppressed of the world's peoples" ....
straight white males. Charles
Isherwood, New York Times.
"a superficial marker of profundity, like bringing
Piketty to the beach" Emily
Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12-15-14.
"He looked like a dog that had just been kicked by
Albert Payson Terhune." .... registering sudden, incomprehensible
betrayal. Remembered from a Paul
Kendall reference.
"the autodidact's anxiety about not knowing enough"
D. T. Max, New Yorker, 12-8-14.
"Squat and muscular, he looked as if he had been
lifting weights and was still mad at them." D. T. Max, New
Yorker, 12-8-14. Of
Chris Burden.
"Art is long, and life is quite long too" ....
looking at the proliferation of homes for the aged. Zoë Heller, New York Times
Book Review, 12-21-14.
"Twitter — that device helpfully enabling people to
write faster than they can think"
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York
Review, 1-5-15.
In the U. S. today: "a culture so vulgar that a reality
series entitled 'Dating Naked' engenders a collective yawn." Judith Newman, NYT, 12-28-14.
"the bottomless joys of anal sex" .... one end of
the range of recent soul-baring personal narratives. Daniel Mendelsohn, NYT, 12-28-14.
"a fairly gay-friendly community in a city of Midwestern reserve and Southern
denial" .... the locale of a pastoral crisis. Rhonda Mawhood Lee, NYT, 12-28-14.
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